Sentences with phrase «lunar ice at»

(I wonder if the lunar ice at the poles would have any use as a time series indicator of solar activity, too)

Not exact matches

Taylor envisions a lunar microwave machine akin to a Zamboni that smooths the ice at a hockey game.

An odd offset of the ice from the moon's current north and south poles was a tell - tale indicator to Siegler and prompted him to assemble a team of experts to take a closer look at the data from NASA's Lunar Prospector and Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter missions.

For example, he pointed to sun - shy craters at the lunar poles, where near - constant darkness has trapped and preserved water ice ripe for conversion into oxygen, water and rocket propellant.

Last Thursday, jubilant National Aeronautics and Space Administration researchers announced that the Lunar Prospector spacecraft had confirmed earlier indications that ice exists in potentially extractable quantities in the dark, cold regions at both of the moon's poles.

Heat from the impact that made Occator probably allowed a mixture of ice, salts, and rock in Ceres's interior to become more fluid and rise up to the surface, scientists reported today at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas.

(More discussion of the ice - thickness issue is available at the Lunar and Planetary Institute).

It could even go as low as 50 % FIRST the synchronized lunar and planet cycles will both be descending down to the driest part of their cycles in 2019/20 (this only occurs once every 297 years in Australia) SECOND Antarctic sea ice extent has been trending up to now be at record high levels for the last 34 years.

The occurrences of lunar migrations happen every winter at all sites, even under sea ice with snow cover on top.»