Sentences with phrase «use ice deposits»

NASA has said that future Mars - exploring astronauts could use ice deposits close to the surface.

Not exact matches

On the western side the ice cores showed deposits of PFASs initially increasing as they were used more and more in European industry in the 1980s, and then decreasing as industrial output changed in the early 2000s.
Then the researchers used an electron beam to carve away two squares of ice, exposing the tops of some nanotubes, and deposited a layer of palladium on top of this ice mask.
Researchers using NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) have found eight sites where thick deposits of ice beneath Mars» surface are exposed in faces of eroding slopes.
Over the weekend, Phoenix scooped up a shovel - full of ruddy dirt using its 7.7 - foot (2.4 - meter) robotic arm to deposit into its Thermal and Evolved - Gas Analyzer, a suite of tiny, single - use ovens for baking soil and ice samples to study their chemistry.
The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter will use a neutron detector — the Fine Resolution Epithermal Neutron Detector or FREND — to map subsurface hydrogen to a depth of 1 m to reveal deposits of water - ice hidden just below the surface.
It's useless to get mad at this movie, which is nothing more than a collection of jokes about bodily functions that occasionally laughs at people injuring themselves in order to take a break from gags about urine, vomit, soft - serve chocolate ice cream that looks like it's coming out of a man's rear end, a showroom - floor toilet that a different man sleepily decides to use to deposit what the ice cream is representing, another guy showing off his ability to «burp - sneeze - fart,» and more.
They live only in a few borderline places, however; for global temperatures scientists use not only other species of trees but a wide variety of «proxies» from ice cores, coral reefs, cave deposits, the sea floor, pollen in lake sediments, boreholes in rock and so forth.
The layers are matched to calendar years using the telltale deposits of known volcanic eruptions; and 3) connecting the ages of the ice and the air — i.e., the time difference between snow falling and air bubbles getting enclosed — is a problem all of its own.
Has anyone taken recently deposited firn, mechanically compressed it to form ice, aged it for a while, then analyzed the ice using the present ice core analysis techniques to see if the results agree with the present atmosphere?
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