Sentences with phrase «nitrogen ice from»

The new images, at resolutions of about 80 meters per pixel, show a striking shoreline, where smooth plains of nitrogen ice from Pluto's «heart» rub up against water ice mountains several kilometers high.

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Buttermilk liquid nitrogen ice - cream (from local ice - cream shop Spun), made on site and topped with smoked brisket fat powder, pickled jalapeno glass and cornbread cookie crumbs.

My top refreshing eats included the below pictured smoothie bowl, which I made because I was craving ice cream...... and then later in the day when I still actually wanted ice cream, I got a cup of deliciousness from Sub Zero, an ice cream maker that creates your dessert right in front of you using liquid nitrogen: -LCB- Low - fat «Magnetic Mint» ice cream cup -RCB- Yum.

Using sediment gathered from the ocean floor in different areas of the world, the researchers were able to confirm that as the ice sheets started melting and the climate warmed up at the end of the last ice age, 18,000 years ago, the marine nitrogen cycle started to accelerate.

Accompanying the founders of the new Mars colony would be large amounts of equipment, including machines to produce fertilizer, methane and oxygen from Mars» atmospheric nitrogen and carbon dioxide and the planet's subsurface water ice.

McKinnon and colleagues believe the pattern of these cells stems from the slow thermal convection of the nitrogen - dominated ices that fill Sputnik Planum.

For example, they revealed that the west side of Pluto's «heart» is rich in carbon - monoxide ice, unlike the rest of the dwarf planet, and they announced that the probe had detected Pluto's thin, nitrogen - dominated atmosphere out to a distance of 1,000 miles (1,600 km) from the surface.

«More nitrogen has to come from somewhere to resupply both the nitrogen ice that is moving around Pluto's surface in seasonal cycles, and the nitrogen that is escaping off the top of the atmosphere as the result of heating by ultraviolet light from the Sun,» said Singer.

Once thought to be a relatively inactive world, being so bitterly cold and far from the Sun, Pluto has been shown to be more geologically active than anticipated, with mountains of solid water ice, canyons, unusual pits, and large, slowly moving glaciers of nitrogen, methane, and carbon monoxide ices.

The new images are intriguing NASA astronomers with views of flows of nitrogen ice spreading from mountains onto flat plains, possible dune regions, and networks of valleys carved into Pluto's surface by as yet unknown materials.

... The ice is not just scattered on the surface; it goes hundreds of miles deep,» and the world is even colder than Pluto, which itself is colder than liquid nitrogen, added co-author Jennifer Yee from the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA).

Fifty seventh - and eighth - graders from John Witherspoon Middle School in Princeton came to PPPL for a half day on March 4 to become scientists — doing a variety of hands - on science activities, from building a motor to sampling ice cream frozen with liquid nitrogen in a cryogenics demonstration, to watching cool plasma demonstrations of lightning, static electricity and stars.

You can get horizontal pressure gradients from uneven distributions of molecular nitrogen (N2) ice, and you can get horizontal temperature gradients from uneven heating from the sun.

It probably arose from photochemical dissociation of ammonia — an abundant ice in the outer solar system — into molecular nitrogen and hydrogen.

Ultraviolet light from the distant Sun causes the surface ice — which is composed of nitrogen, carbon monoxide and methane — to turn into a gas.

With a pressure 100,000 times less than the Earth's atmosphere, it's consists of nitrogen with traces of methane and carbon monoxide, all of which have sublimated from Plutonian ice.

They make all of their ice cream from local ingredients and use liquid nitrogen and mix it up right in front of you.

To make the link, Hastings, with Julia Jarvis and Eric Steig from the Department of Earth and Space Sciences at the University of Washington, examined at high resolution for the first time two isotopes of nitrogen found in nitrates in a Greenland ice core.

The paper, «Reconstruction of past atmospheric CO2 concentrations by ice core analysis», acknowledges that, due to impurities, liquid water can exist as low as -50 deg C. Diffusion of CO2 into this water, due to its far higher solubility than nitrogen and oxygen, will partially deplete the CO2 from trapped air bubbles.