Sentences with phrase «percent water ice»

All of five largest moons of Uranus are composed of a mix of about 40 to 50 percent water ice with rock.

The moon is about 25 percent rock and 75 percent water ice.

They ran the model assuming different water contents of the material that makes up the mountain — ranging from 100 percent water ice to 40 percent water ice, Sori explained.

Not exact matches

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The study notes that narrowing down that percent range requires particle accelerator experiments on water ice to more accurately gauge the number of chemical reactions that result per unit of energy deposited by cosmic rays and solar energetic particles.

LRO's partner spacecraft, LCROSS, found about 5 percent water - ice in the lunar soil.

Water vapor and clouds may play a role The Arctic's summer ice cover hit a record low in 2007, when it dipped about 40 percent below the average ice cover recorded since 1979, when scientists began monitoring the region with satellites.

Figuring out what explanation is correct requires knowing the precise composition of the 10 percent of the rings that isn't water ice.

The goo thickens as water freezes out of it and gets foamier as the dasher beats air into it — commercial ice creams are anywhere from 20 percent air («superpremium») to 50 percent air (not so premium).

The goal of reasonably hard ice cream keeps receding because you can only freeze about 50 percent of the water.

Nearly 30 percent of ice covering the Arctic Ocean at summer's peak is thin enough to foster sprawling phytoplankton blooms in the waters below, a recent study estimated.

USGS estimates that Alaska's glaciers and ice fields are responsible for nearly 50 percent of the water that flows into the Gulf of Alaska.

A new study by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, and the University of California, Irvine, shows that while ice sheets and glaciers continue to melt, changes in weather and climate over the past decade have caused Earth's continents to soak up and store an extra 3.2 trillion tons of water in soils, lakes and underground aquifers, temporarily slowing the rate of sea level rise by about 20 percent.

Using diamond anvil cells (DAC), the team applied 2.5 GPa of pressure (25 thousand atmospheres) to pre-compress water into the room - temperature ice VII, a cubic crystalline form that is different from «ice - cube» hexagonal ice, in addition to being 60 percent denser than water at ambient pressure and temperature.

In the latter scenario, water ice would make up 22 percent of the cloud head and ammonia ice 55 percent.

Antarctica is home to about 70 percent of the planet's fresh water, and 90 percent of the planet's freshwater ice.

They estimate that approximately 30 percent of the minor planet's mass was water and other ices, and approximately 70 percent was rocky material.

Europa (which is 12 percent smaller than Earth's Moon) appears to have a sparsely cratered shell of water ice that may be only 30 to 50 million years old, and so some resurfacing process must be renewing its icy shell.

While the Alps could lose anything between 75 percent and 90 percent of their glacial ice by the end of the century, Greenland's glaciers — which have the potential to raise global sea levels by up to 20 feet — are expected to melt faster as their exposure to warm ocean water increases.

Taking into account the dwarf planet's size and interior heat flow, which is around two percent that of Earth's, the team discovered that the temperatures and pressures at play below Sputnik Planitia could give rise to a viscous, slushy subsurface ocean of water ice.

It's hard to imagine liquid water in a place as frigid as Antarctic, but due to heat from the earth and friction against the base of the ice, 55 percent of the West Antarctic ice sheet actually rests on water.

The planet's mass and diameter are consistent with the hypothesis that it has a low average density due to an inferred composition of three - fourths water (possibly 47 percent) and other ices (that have subliminated into a «supercritical fluid» above an «electronically conductive,» dense fluid plasma below a steamy atmosphere) and one - fourth rock and iron in the core.

Impact craters at many latitudes sometimes expose thin ice layers a foot or so beneath Mars» surface.132 «At polar latitudes, as much as 50 percent of the upper meter of soil may be [water] ice.»

``... near the poles, Mars Odyssey [spacecraft] has shown, as much as 50 percent of the upper meter of soil may be [water] ice.»

Rather than projecting out to the mid-twenty-first century, it is clear that the Arctic Ocean already has crossed a threshold with open water during the summer and first - year sea ice during the winter covering more than 50 percent of its area.

Glacial ice that floats in the water is only 10 percent exposed, the remaining 90 percent is under water.

The ice concentration of the small floes was about 10 to 30 percent and the mini-icebergs jutting out of the water by about one meter provided for a situation which was mastered by the modern multipurpose heavy lift project carriers being built with ice class E3 and the experience of the captains.

According to a study commissioned by Canada's National Energy Board and based on 20 years of Beaufort Sea data, three of the most widely - used oil spill containment methods — burning spilled oil in - situ, deploying booms and skimmers, and aerial application of dispersants — would be impossible due to bad weather or sea ice 20 - 84 percent of the brief, June - to - November open - water season.

As the Arctic sea ice melts, however, and the incoming sunlight hits the much darker open water, only 6 percent is reflected back into space and 94 percent is converted into heat.

At the other end of the earth, the 2 - kilometer - thick Antarctic ice sheet, which covers a continent about twice the size of Australia and contains 70 percent of the world's fresh water, is also beginning to melt.

Seventy percent of the earth is covered with water, but only a tiny amount occurs in the atmosphere as vapor or ice crystals.

From historic droughts around the world and in places like California, Syria, Brazil and Iran to inexorably increasing glacial melt; from an expanding blight of fish killing and water poisoning algae blooms in lakes, rivers and oceans to a growing rash of global record rainfall events; and from record Arctic sea ice volume losses approaching 80 percent at the end of the summer of 2012 to a rapidly thawing permafrost zone explosively emitting an ever - increasing amount of methane and CO2, it's already a disastrous train - wreck.

If you pump water to this exceedingly remote, freezing place, said Levermann, then in 1,000 years, only about 20 percent of its equivalent will return to the ocean, through the gradual spreading and flow of Antarctic ice out toward the sea under its own massive weight.

d Numbers of total dinoflagellate cysts per gram sediment (green circles), concentration of sea - ice related dinoflagellate species Impagidinium pallidum in percent of total dinoflagellate cyst taxa (blue circles) and accumulation rates of Operculodinium centrocarpum (olive - colored graph) indicative of warm Atlantic Water inflow42.

[Open water with just 15 percent of floating ice debris, still counts as sea ice extent - not as area though.]

In the absence of such aerosols, the spontaneous conversion of water vapour into liquid water or ice crystals requires conditions with relative humidities much greater than 100 percent, with respect to a flat surface of H2O.

For example, saturated air with respect to liquid water becomes supersaturated with respect to ice by 10 percent at − 10 °C (14 °F) and by 21 percent at − 20 °C -LRB--4 °F).

Results showed that the extent of multi-year ice, which includes areas of the Arctic Ocean where multi-year ice covers at least 15 percent of the water's surface, is shrinking at a rate of 15.1 percent per decade.

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The Antarctic ice sheet, which is 1.5 miles thick in some places, contains over 90 percent of the world's fresh water.

But scientists do not know how global warming may affect Earth's two major ice sheets, in Greenland and Antarctica, which hold 77 percent of the world's fresh water — enough to potentially raise the sea level approximately 225 feet (70 meters).

Using climate models, Radic found that these smaller mountain glaciers and ice caps may contribute more than 4.5 inches (12 centimeters) to world sea level rise by the beginning of the next century, even though they contain less than one percent of all water on Earth bound in glacier ice.

Ninety - eight percent of the GOES grid points had ice water paths no greater than 60 g m − 2, as compared with 74 % for MM5.

Ten percent of MM5 points had ice water content > 200 g m − 2, as compared with 0.07 % for GOES retrievals.

(A third of summer sea ice in the Arctic is gone, the oceans are 30 percent more acidic, and since warm air holds more water vapor than cold, the atmosphere over the oceans is a shocking five percent wetter, loading the dice for devastating floods.)

«Water is seen on part of the glacial ice sheet that covers about 80 percent of Greenland...» Oh no!

97 percent of the water on Earth is salt water, contained in the planet's oceans, seas, and inland salt water bodies, 2 percent of it (fresh water) is locked in the polar ice caps, and the remaining 1 percent is the fresh water we use everyday.