Sentences with phrase «not ethane»

The fact that the radar signals could bounce off the sea bottom suggests that the seas were more transparent than expected and thus must contain mostly methane, not ethane.

Not exact matches

But in this case, the liquid is not water, but rather liquid methane and ethane.

Hunten contends that molecules of ethane can't form droplets, so they instead cling to smog particles in Titan's atmosphere.

The bodies appear to be made mostly of methane, and not mostly ethane as previously thought.

If they are clouds, they're probably made of ethane, acetylene or hydrogen cyanide, based on what researchers have learned about Pluto's atmosphere — though they might not be clouds, just reflective splotches on

Titan's surface seems to be covered with ethane oceans and an organic goo that may resemble the Earth's early surface chemistry, but nobody knows for sure, because astronomers can't see through the moon's maddeningly opaque orange fog.

But the moon's frigid temperatures mean its liquids are hydrocarbons like ethane or methane, not water.

They're made not of sand but of ice or frozenhydrocarbons or even of a strange, mile - high fluffy ethane - smog mixthat one planetary scientist has dubbed «smust.»

Within that range of atmospheric density, even higher concentrations of carbon dioxide wouldn't have been adequate to counteract the faint young sun, suggesting that methane, ethane or other strong greenhouse gases kept Earth from freezing.

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.

That doesn't mean it would be a good vacation spot, however; those dark lakes and seas, which mostly cluster around the north pole, are filled with liquid methane and ethane.

[M] ethane doesn't need to be an emission or a waste.

However, what comes out of a gas well isn't pure methane, but a blend that also includes chemicals like butane, propane, and ethane — and ethane is a key building block for plastics.

While water does not flow on Titan, rivers of methane and ethane flow into lakes near the moon's northern pole.

It is known that larger hydrocarbon molecules like ethane and propane can also form hydrates, although longer molecules (butanes, pentanes) can not fit into the water cage structure and tend to destabilise the formation of hydrates.