Sentences with phrase «water ice dominates»

A mixture of rock and water ice dominates Ceres» landscape, while methane and nitrogen ices cover Pluto.

Not exact matches

Five gaping holes, created by giant impacts, dominate one side of Mathilde, and the asteroid is so lightweight, says Bell, that it must be either full of ice (but there's no sign of water) or a loosely packed pile of rocks held together by their own weak gravity.

These bonds between molecules, which are called hydrogen bonds, dominate the properties of water and ice.

Titan has diverse, carbon - rich chemistry on a surface dominated by water ice, as well as an interior ocean.

It has also decreased the amount of the oldest, thickest Arctic sea ice, leaving polar waters dominated by thinner ice that forms in the fall and melts in the summer.

Discovered in 1978 by the United States Naval Observatory, Charon is the largest of Pluto's five moons and is only half the size of Pluto and one - eighth of its mass, with a surface dominated by a mixture of water ice and frozen ammonia.

grains are dominated by water ice, about 6 % of them are quite salty, containing roughly 1.5 % of a mixture of sodium chloride, sodium carbonate and sodium bicarbonate.»

The way humans mistreat water has dominated headlines and become mission critical to address: the melting polar ice caps and rising sea levels, the poisoned tap water in Flint, Michigan — and the threat the Dakota Access Pipeline poses to the Standing Rock Sioux tribe.

I do not see that the state of the Arctic sea ice has been shown to be dominated by the thermal processes typically associated with increases in the temperature of either the air or water at the North Pole.

As I've been reporting since I camped with scientists on the drifting, chugging sea ice near the North Pole in 2003, the basic picture is of a warming system (oceans and atmosphere) in which open water eventually dominates in late summer — for better and worse, depending on your vantage point.

A large sector of what was remotely sensed to be multi-year sea ice at 7 to 9 + tenths ice cover, consisting primarily of multy - year ice floes, was in fact a surface of heavily decayed ice composed of some small multi-year floes (1 tenth) interspersed in a cover dominated by heavily decayed first - year floes (1 tenths) and overlain by new sea ice in areas of negative freeboard and in open water between floes.

Given that the northern polar region is dominated by water, whereas the southern polar region is dominated by land, one would expect a greater temperature response to changes in ice extent in the Arctic than Antarctica.