Sentences with phrase «liquid methane at»

Titan is believed to have vast hydrocarbon oceans and rivers made of liquid methane at temperatures that would preclude the possibility of existence of Earth - like organisms.

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A team of researchers from the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin and environmental testing firm URS reports that a small subset of natural gas wells are responsible for the majority of methane emissions from two major sources — liquid unloadings and pneumatic controller equipment — at natural gas production sites.

During its first free flight test at night, Morpheus (a Human Exploration and Operations MD project) tests NASA's ALHAT and an engine that runs on liquid oxygen and methane, which are green propellants.

Features near that boundary resemble barrier islands and sandbars, while the dark regions at right may be flood basins coated with tarry sediment; they might fill with liquid methane that then soaks into the ground.

Only at Titan, the evaporated material is thought to be organic chemicals originally from Titan's haze particles that once dissolved in liquid methane.

«If you think being a weather forecaster on Earth is difficult, it can be even more challenging at Titan,» said Scott Edgington, Cassini's deputy project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. «We know there are weather processes similar to Earth's at work on this strange world, but differences arise due to the presence of unfamiliar liquids like methane.

It could be that the liquid is thick and viscous, like honey, though the material properties of methane and ethane at low temperatures are not well known.

The azotosome is capable of functioning in liquid methane, which is present in abundance on Titan, at temperatures of 292 degrees below zero.

There are no jolly elves at Titan's north pole; liquid methane and ethane seas appear as splotchy features near the moon's poles.

Additional unprocessed images gathered during Cassini's plunge are available online, along with hundreds of thousands collected by the probe during the more than 13 years it has spend studying Saturn and its moons — observations which resulted in the publication of more than 3,000 studies and such discoveries as liquid methane seas at Titan and hydrothermal activity on Enceladus.

Methane emissions from liquid unloadings were measured at 107 wells in natural gas production regions throughout the United States.

Steam, methane and hydrocarbon liquids are proposed to be recovered via the annulus of the well with the hydrocarbon liquids being stripped at surface and the remaining products being recycled by the jet pumps in a continuous cycle.