Sentences with phrase «of nitrogen ice with»

Data reported by NASA's New Horizons New Horizons mission to the Pluto system shows unusual terrain in this region, which features a large deposit of nitrogen ice with a pattern of polygons that are thickest at their centers and dip at their edges.

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Watch as we turn your flavors into ice cream with the aid of a tank of nitrogen!

In addition, guests were treated to ice cream the students made with the use of liquid nitrogen.

The New Horizons probe revealed Pluto as a colorful world, with a «heart» composed of nitrogen and methane ices.

The team computed the Rayleigh number for the nitrogen ice layer, a mathematical term associated with the level of buoyancy - driven flow, or convection, and found it to be more than 10,000 times greater than the critical value needed for the onset of convection.

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 recent flyby of Pluto by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft revealed the distant planet to be a surprisingly active world, replete with geologically recent flows of nitrogen ice that may be r...

This is the first time a white dwarf with nitrogen has been discovered, and one of only a few known examples of white dwarfs that have been impacted by a rocky body that was rich in water ice.

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.

Finally, we use our derived NH3 abundances in combination with previously published abundances of other solid N - bearing species to find that up to 10 - 20 % of nitrogen is locked up in known ices.

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 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 with traces of methane and carbon monoxide, all of which have sublimated from Plutonian ice.

Pluto and Eris share a very similar planetary surface, that is mostly covered in nitrogen ice with a small amount of methane ice (more).

Eris and Pluto share a very similar planetary surface, that is mostly covered in nitrogen ice with a small amount of methane ice (more).

► A rat and a mouse are flush - frozen with liquid nitrogen; we see a refrigerator full of mice encased in ice.

Instead you have around 4 atm of nitrogen gas, and some quantity in terms atmospheres of CO2, very little H2O gas in atmosphere and it snowing and raining CO2 with lakes / oceans / ice caps of CO2.

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.