Sentences with phrase «tiny ice particles»

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Charged particles, or ions, of magnesium from the cosmic dust can trigger the formation of tiny ice crystals that help form clouds, a new analysis of Mars» atmosphere suggests.

Rain and snow often require tiny particles floating in the cloud to trigger ice to form, and not just any particle will do.

The particles of rock and ice in these belts vary in size from the tiniest dust grain, smaller than a millimetre across, up to asteroid - like bodies many kilometres in diameter [2].

Their stickiness makes it hard to get them through an inlet into a measuring device, but these compounds may play a significant role in the formation and alteration of aerosols, tiny airborne particles that can contribute to smog or to the nucleation of raindrops or ice crystals, affecting the Earth's climate.

Urine that it vented also left a residue when tiny particles hit the craft's panels, so Lorenz suggests that future missions to Enceladus could look for signatures of life if similar residue is found in the minuscule dents left on a detector by ice grains from the plumes.

It is theorized that the process may be similar to what happens on comets, when water vapor lifts tiny particles of dust and ice off the surface.

During ISDAC, they collected an unprecedented level of data and detailed observations on Arctic clouds and aerosols, those tiny particles in the atmosphere that act as seeds for cloud droplets and ice crystals.

Tiny particles of soot deform after giving birth to cloud ice and droplets, challenging climate models

Clouds are made of tiny water droplets or ice crystals that have condensed onto tiny pieces of sea salt, dust, smoke, or other particles in the air.

Additionally, volcanoes pump sulfates into the atmosphere, and these tiny particles also end up in the ice cores.