Sentences with phrase «trace of water»

So the discovered traces of water - ice suggest some underground ice was recently exposed and that there must be some mechanism to explain how the surface was disturbed in this way.

In other parts, there're traces of water planes and a helicopter with mini machine games.

Take LADEE, which detected traces of water in the lunar atmosphere that were probably carried there by meteorites.

The LCROSS results will flesh out the surprise announcements in September that three other spacecraft — India's Chandrayaan - 1 and NASA's Deep Impact and Cassini — detected traces of water on the moon's surface by studying reflected infrared light from the sun.

Situated 150 light - years from Earth, HD 209458b is a planet that holds traces of water vapor in its atmosphere, and also contains basic organic compounds that, on Earth, foster the development of life.

In the microscopic veins that permeate Arctic ice, for example, the high concentration of salt can maintain traces of water in a liquid state down to — 65 °F.

Whiffs of chemicals found in rocket fuel, a dark pyramid that resembles rare volcanic rocks on Earth and glassy particles bearing traces of water are among the Curiosity rover's finds in its first chemical investigation of Martian dirt.

In fact, they found the opposite: the protons destroyed any residual traces of water in the minerals (Icarus, DOI: 10.1016 / j.icarus.2010.11.007).

Even smallest traces of water that intrude into the cell release hydrogen at the anode and acts as an oxidizing agent on the carbon in the cathode.

For volcanic Venus, this meant a series of heavy elements and molecules created a permanent smog that ensured the planet remained a dry hellscape free of all but the slightest traces of water vapor.

A meteorite blasted from the surface of Mars contains traces of water, according to a new study.

This is illustrated by the detection of traces of water in samples from the moon in 2008, ~ 40 years after they were retrieved by the Apollo missions.

To find life around nearby stars, the ESA's Darwin mission will look for traces of water, oxygen, and carbon dioxide in the atmospheres of Earth - type planets found in stellar habitable zones (more).

Carr says that if there had been relatively recent sublimation, as the scientists propose, some traces of water should remain in the atmosphere.

He checked the wavelengths between 900 and 1000 nanometers and, sure enough, he saw the trace of water molecules, he reports in a paper to be published in The Astrophysical Journal.

Any traces of water were most likely contamination from Earth, he decided; through analyzing other samples, he had come to believe that the moon was dry.

«We have to go back to the real meteorites and see if there had been traces of water.»

There is also a trace of water in the equatorial pacific from the fading El Nino.