Sentences with phrase «liquid surface on»

Looking at the chart, 53 planets (31 Warm Superterrans, 21 Warm Terrans, and one Warm Subterran) have the right size and temperature to potentially foster life, and exhibit features such as liquid surface on the water and a stable atmosphere.

«We're measuring the elevation of a liquid surface on another body 10 astronomical units away from the sun to an accuracy of roughly 40 centimeters.

Not exact matches

So Dragon should be capable of landing on any solid or liquid surface in the inner solar system.

Everyone went nuts over the announcement on Monday by NASA that it has discovered liquid saltwater on the surface of Mars.

The planets orbit an «ultracool dwarf,» a star much smaller and cooler than the sun, but still possibly warm enough to allow for liquid water on the surfaces of at least two of the planets.

In 2011, Clean Harbors acquired Peak Energy Services, bringing on the capabilities to service oil and gas drilling operations by providing surface rentals and specialized liquid, solid and sludge processing.

Point 3 — There was division of waters, especially since you can not have liquid water on the surface of the earth without a sun to provide heat.

Calculations indicate that in several ways it is quite an Earth - like planet: its radius is 1.2 to 2.5 times that of Earth; its mass is 3.1 to 4.3 times greater; and, crucially, its orbit lies within its star's «Goldilocks zone», which means its surface temperature is neither too hot nor too cold for liquid water - and therefore potentially life - to exist on its surface.

The dough was so liquid - y that when I poured it on to the heavily floured surface it wouldn't hold any shape nor could I fold it or pick it up to even put in the bowl to rise.

Cook, stirring often, until liquid has evaporated, mushrooms are well browned, and dark fond begins to form on the surface of the pan, about 5 minutes.

Sprinkle the butter with a few teaspoons of flour during this process — some of the liquid in the butter will bead up on the surface as you pound and the flour helps absorb this.

The acquisition follows a difficult few days for Dairy Crest, which saw its share value plummet by more than 6 per cent at the beginning of last week, after reports surfaced that it could lose out on a new contract to supply Morrisons, the UK's fourth largest multiple retailer, with fresh liquid milk to rival processor Robert Wiseman Dairies.

My niece has stomach problems and is allergic to wheat, dairy and eggs so I tried to make her lemon poppyseed mini cakes and used gluten free flour, coconut oil and egg replacer, (recipe called for 2 1/4 cup flour, 1 1/3 cup butter, 5 eggs) but when I mixed it up it was like paste and liquid y on top, put it in the pan and baked it, (350) and the oil and water separated and came to the surface, looked like I was deep frying, needless to say it came out like hardtack, what's wrong??

One observation to the wise: the filling is a dense liquid when poured into the gingersnap shell, so you're balancing the pecans and pumpkins seeds on the surface; the pecans particularly can be submerged if inattentively dropped.

Using a large spoon or small ladle, skim off bright yellow fat that has collected on surface of braising liquid and drizzle all over platter (it's okay if some rogue spices make it onto platter).

Developed starter will have bubbles on the surface and may have a thin layer of yellow liquid on top.

Heat the liquid until warm and there's foam on the surface.

During occasional soliloquies such as this one, which happened on a very late and very liquid evening after Riggs had abandoned his training routine (he says he is now down to only 207 vitamin pills a day) and was imbibing generously of, first, bourbon on the rocks and then many Heinekens, more of his true feelings seem to surface.

Mold can grow in improperly stored crib mattresses, and bacteria can fester on the surface from liquids (diaper leakage, spit - up) that weren't properly cleaned up.

While changing your baby's diaper, you might spill the liquid on the surface.

The lakes and seas of liquid organics on Titan's surface have naturally raised speculation about whether they might contain life.

Liquid products can be sprayed on a surface to provide an even coating.

In Martian summer, the combination of warm temperatures and a thin atmosphere make any liquid water on the surface boil, which can let dust hover across the ground

Dense growths of bacteria and fungi are found on the inner surface of these flexible toys, and a murky liquid will often be released when they are squeezed by a child.

Liquid water is not a prerequisite for a high score: A planet with liquids on the surface receives more points than a dry world, but the presence of water confers no additional advantage.

Both are roughly the same size and mass, and Venus lies close to the sun's habitable zone, where temperatures enable stable liquid water on a planet's surface.

When a drop of liquid lands on a hydrophobic surface, the fluid's momentum spreads it into a flat pancake.

MAVEN arrived at Mars in Sept. 2014 on a mission to investigate a planetary mystery: Billions of years ago, Mars was blanketed by layer of air massive enough to warm the planet and allow liquid water to flow on its surface.

Astronomers announced today the discovery of an extraordinary planetary system: seven Earth - sized planets that could all have liquid water on their rocky surfaces.

Films of liquid water persist far below freezing, like coatings of condensation, on the surfaces of some minerals.

Unlike traditional pipettes, which draw up liquids using suction, the liverwort relies on the surface tension of the water to hold droplets, says study coauthor Hirofumi Wada, a physicist at Ritsumeikan University in Kusatsu, Japan.

Gathering more detailed data on surface chemistry, the history of liquid water, climate cycles, and the exact constituents of the atmosphere are critical to building a case for — or against — life.

Today the small amount of water detected on the planet is locked in the polar ice caps, but recently discovered geological features suggest liquid water once flowed on its surface.

If a planet consists of a lot of gas, the atmospheric pressure on the surface may be so high that water is not able to keep its liquid form.

The Cassini spacecraft has since spotted lakes of ethane, making Titan the only world other than Earth known to have bodies of liquid on its surface.

Studies of hydrogen molecules in the Venusian atmosphere by NASA's Pioneer - Venus probe indicate that the planet once had liquid water on its surface, perhaps even expansive oceans.

Kepler - 186f is the first Earth - size planet discovered in the potentially «habitable zone» around another star, where liquid water could exist on the planet's surface.

With knowledge only of the luminosity of the star (1/600 that of the sun), the mass of the planet (1.3 times that of Earth), and the length of its orbit (11.2 days), the team was able to predict that, with a variety of possible atmospheres, it would be possible for Proxima b to harbor liquid water on its surface.

After years of scrutinizing the closest star to Earth, a red dwarf known as Proxima Centauri, astronomers have finally found evidence for a planet, slightly bigger than Earth and well within the star's habitable zone — the range of orbits in which liquid water could exist on its surface.

In a paper published in Geophysical Research Letters, researchers found that interactions between methane, carbon dioxide and hydrogen in the early Martian atmosphere may have created warm periods when the planet could support liquid water on the surface.

Current methods can estimate the size and temperature of an exoplanet planet in order to determine whether liquid water could exist on the planet's surface, believed to be one of the criteria for a planet hosting the right conditions for life.

So Proxima b's 11 - day year exposes it to two thirds as much starlight as Earth — enough to place the planet in the middle of its star's «habitable zone,» a temperate circumstellar region where liquid water and life could conceivably exist on a rocky world's surface.

Tour said single - atom catalysts have been realized in liquids, but rarely on a surface.

ne = the number of habitable planets around each star In days gone by, scientists would speak solemnly about our solar system's «habitable zone» — a theoretical region extending from Venus to Mars, but perhaps not encompassing either, where a planet would be the right temperature to have liquid water on its surface.

San Francisco State University astronomer Stephen Kane and an international team of researchers have announced the discovery of a new rocky planet that could potentially have liquid water on its surface.

«There are lots of ways to keep liquid water on the surface.»

What's more, one of the planets is in the stars» habitable zone, the region around the suns where temperatures are just right for liquid water — and therefore maybe life — to exist on a planet's surface.

All they know is that the planet receives the right amount of solar energy to conceivably have liquid water on its surface.

Its thick, opaque orange atmosphere rains liquid methane, which flows into lakes on the surface.

Habitable zone planets like Earth orbit at a distance from a star where water vapor can stay liquid on the surface.