Sentences with phrase «of frozen water»

Both substances are made of frozen water and lack any light - absorbing pigment.

If enough material were thrown up, a probe could collect and analyse it for signs of frozen water and minerals from hard - to - reach areas below.

Recently, rising temperatures have caused much of the frozen water on the planet's glaciers to melt and join the ocean as liquid.

Because ice is just chunks of frozen water, it contains no calories, sugar, or fat, so there is no way that it could cause your cat to gain weight.

If it's a hot day, take along a couple of frozen water bottles to keep your rabbit cool in case your air conditioner breaks or you get stranded out in the heat.

A form of frozen water - methane that is quite unstable unless kept under high pressure and low temperature.

This was ages ago — in the 1970s, back when tiny flakes of frozen water, or «snow» as we called it, would routinely fall from the sky.

Stuck in that crowded boat, with miles of freezing water behind us and weeks of thirsty rowing ahead of us, it didn't feel very good at the time.

Unpredictable varied layers of frozen water.

Mercury, the closest planet to the sun, has about 100 cubic kilometres of frozen water at its poles, suggest measurements by NASA's Messenger spacecraft.

Leaving a bottle of frozen water in the cage and wetting down the rabbit's ears during hot weather will help keep him cool.

Martínez - Frías believes that megacryometeors form when an ice crystal is driven repeatedly through cold water vapor by atmospheric turbulence, acquiring coat after coat of frozen water.

Vast amounts of frozen water were detected at both Martian poles by NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft in May 2002.

Now measurements by NASA's Messenger spacecraft suggest there is about 100 cubic kilometres of frozen water at the planet's poles — roughly enough to fill the Dead Sea.

Methane, the carbon - hydrogen compound that is the main component of natural gas and cow flatulence, gets trapped inside crystalline cages of frozen water in the muddy ocean bottom.

Based on the present preliminary data, the researchers estimate that anywhere from 11 to 330 million tons of frozen water are mixed in the lunar soil, or regolith.

Observe the pink feathered flamingos & star studded skies of the north, then fly south to a world full of frozen water, towering granite peaks & hiking opportunities.

Huge masses of frozen water slip, slide and grind with enormous pressure against the continent below, their constant motion lubricated by a complex system of rivers and lakes below the ice.

Frost composed of frozen water and carbon dioxide even forms in cold mornings (Fig. 2).

I guess this cancer wasn't aware that I'm used to doing six - minute elbow bridges, have sat in the bow of a boat in eight inches of freezing water for an entire two - hour practice, have climbed Half Dome three times in under 3 1/2 hours, and can hold my own as 60 girls attack a feast of Kappa study snacks during finals.

In an encyclopedic work with surprises on every page, Mariana Gosnell captures all facets of frozen water in Ice: The Nature, the History, and the Uses of an Astonishing Substance (Alfred A. Knopf, $ 30).

When hydrates were first discovered at the beginning of the 19th century, their weird structure made them little more than curiosities in a chemist's lab: cage - like structures of frozen water...

The Russian team plans to retrieve samples of frozen water from the borehole in early 2013 and look for such microbes.

Great mountains of ice are melting in Antarctica, vast plains of frozen water continue to collapse into the Southern Ocean.

Ground ice is not the major component of Antarctica's vast reserves of frozen water, but there are major expanses of ground ice in the Dry Valleys, the Antarctic Peninsula and the continent's ice - free islands.

Fitted with a spectrometer that measured the varying wavelengths of light reflected back to Earth, the scope allowed him to determine Europa's composition, and prove that its surface is an expanse of frozen water.

This glowing ledge showed that the mound contained methane hydrate, a lattice of frozen water that traps methane gas molecules within its icy cages.

The researchers speculate that without lungs, the frog may be able to sink to the bottom of the freezing waters it inhabits.

The second event took place millions of year later, after Martian climate had changed so significantly that the oceans were composed primarily of frozen water.

Objects in the Oort Cloud are made up of frozen water, frozen ammonia, and frozen methane.

The West Antarctic ice sheet's imperiled glaciers get all the attention, but there's an even larger pile of frozen water across the continent that scientists are starting to worry about.

Comets raining from the sky left pockets of frozen water at the north and south poles of the moon, billions of tons more than previously believed, Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers have found.7

The mass of frozen water also contributes to the global climate, which is changing as Earth's temperature rises.

The sap would be condensed into syrup by evaporating the excess water using one of two methods: plunging hot stones into the sap or the nightly freezing of the sap, following by the morning removal of the frozen water layer.

LAKE SACACOMIE, Quebec, Canada — The ice is 39 inches thick, a slab of frozen water spanning the width of Lake Sacacomie, two hours north of Montreal.

The Polar Plunge is a fundraising event where individuals and teams wade into various bodies of freezing water.

Now, there was a convenience store about two minutes away from my house but I was gone for nearly an hour before I returned with Don's «Emerald Mica» (green) Miata and two bags of frozen water.

The comet's core, or nucleus, was a conglomeration of frozen water, carbon monoxide, methane gas, and jagged blocks of metallic rocks.

Few things haunt me more than the sight of a cat huddled in the freezing cold, alone, hungry, and afraid — or a shivering dog, tethered to a stake, trapped and helpless, with nothing but a bowl of frozen water nearby.

Keep a supply of frozen water bottles to put in the hutch or run during summer months.

While in Iceland, why not see the amazing sight of their sea creatures launching themselves in and out of the freezing waters?

In 1993, a slender thriller from Denmark, «Smilla's Sense of Snow,» became a sensation in the U.S. thanks to author Peter Hoeg's lyrical descriptions of the endless complexity of frozen water.

In two other important paintings from this early period, Pond Life (1993) and Reflection (What does your soul look like)(1996), Doig has experimented with the glassy surface of frozen water, painstakingly painting the elegant, inverted lines of a lonely house or solitary figure.

Essentially, the mountain storehouses of frozen water that have shaped their history and culture, or that have provided a secure year - round source of water through modern times, are no longer secure.

The return of the spring sun melts domes and lakes of frozen water called thermokarsts — karst is a word usually linked to limestone country, but it has been pressed into service as a label for the hard surfaces caused by ice.

Officials with the California Department of Water Resources say as of April 1, 2017 there is 24 million acre feet of frozen water in the form of snow and ice that is currently sitting on the Sierra mountain range.