Sentences with phrase «nitrogen ice on»

As nitrogen ice on the surface of the plain cools, it recedes, only to be replaced by a rising blob of nitrogen that has been warmed by Pluto's meagre internal heat source.

Now a team of astronomers, led by Tobias Owen of the University of Hawaii, has discovered nitrogen ice on Pluto's surface (International Astronomical Union Circular, No 5532).

Not exact matches

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.

Once on that lowland, the bergs are carried along by the slow - flowing nitrogen ice, often ending up clumped together in large groups (such as the 60 - km - long Challenger Colles, upper right, a feature whose name honors the seven astronauts who died onboard space shuttle Challenger in 1986).

On Pluto, a slurry of nitrogen and water ice melted by subsurface heat stands in for lava, the team suggests, freezing solid once it is exposed at the surface.

The jumbled - up rubble at the base of the ice mountains helps confirm team members» theories that the mountains are, in fact, giant icebergs that have moved around on more plastic layers of nitrogen ice below.

Charon is dark gray and rich in water ice, because it is not massive enough to hold onto the brighter methane and nitrogen ices seen on Pluto — except, maybe, at Charon's pole.

There is probably water - ice at depth on Pluto, but the surface ice is a mixture of frozen methane, ethane, carbon monoxide and nitrogen.

Qiang Wei at Peking University in China and his colleagues calculated that nitrogen ice, which is softer than water ice, on Pluto's plains may flow like molasses to fill in craters as they form.

Instead, they appear bright white, more like the regions of Pluto covered in nitrogen ice, according to work presented at an American Astronomical Society meeting on 17 October by Will Grundy at the Lowell Observatory and Orkan M. Umurhan at the SETI Institute.

The Animal Core routinely provides liver samples to individual investigators either on ice, fixed in formalin for histology, frozen in optimal cutting temperature (OCT) compound for immunohistochemistry, flash frozen or freeze - clamped in liquid nitrogen for biochemical assays or stored in RNA later.

... 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).

A team of Buck scientists will be on hand to make instant liquid nitrogen ice cream — a major hit at last year's event.

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.

Unlike most smaller Kuiper belt objects, these Pluto - sized bodies are mostly round, likely internally differentiated with the ice and rock separated, and contain frozen volatile ices, like nitrogen, carbon monoxide and methane, in varying amounts on their evolving surfaces.

Research by University of Maryland astronomy professor Douglas Hamilton and New Horizons colleagues, published in the journal Nature, shows that this nitrogen ice cap could have formed early on, when Pluto was still spinning quickly, and did not necessarily require an impact basin.

Researchers have focused on the heart's western lobe, informally named Sputnik Planitia, a deep basin containing three kinds of ices — frozen nitrogen, methane and carbon monoxide — and appearing opposite Charon, Pluto's large, tidally locked moon.

For example, grenades combined with a hammer get you an explosive melee weapon, some liquid nitrogen and paint canisters create ice grenades, and so on.

Showing an area that is 1,290 miles top to bottom, it details the enormous geological variety found on the surface, including mountain ranges, craters, floating hills, and rugged highlands, as well as the nitrogen - ice plain informally named Sputnik Planum.

On Saturday, we headed into the city for yum cha in Chinatown and some liquid nitrogen ice cream for dessert.

Afterwards, we popped over to Noosa for some nitrogen ice - cream on Hastings Street while we watched the beautiful people swagger past, then we went for a swim at the gorgeous beach and tucked into another burger, this time at the Noosa Life Saving Club.