Sentences with phrase «world with liquid water»

With the help of missions that have gone before Curiosity, we know that Mars was once a wet world with liquid water oceans that tell the story of an ancient Mars that was much warmer than it is today.

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Liquid water is not a prerequisite for a high score: A planet with liquids on the surface receives more points than a dry world, but the presence of water confers no additional advantage.

Saturn's moon Enceladus made waves in 2015 with two dramatic liquid - water - related discoveries, establishing the world as a target of great interest in the search for life.

Although we are some time off from probing a distant potentially habitable world's atmosphere for the presence of liquid water or chemical traces of life, Kepler - along with supporting observations by other space - and ground - based instrumentation - is giving us a tantalizing hint of the preponderance of small rocky worlds in the Milky Way.

Many random systems that describe the physical world, even those with very simple descriptions, can have dramatically different behaviors at different temperatures, such as solid ice turning to liquid water at a prescribed temperature.

The study, which took five years, only looked for planets that orbited rather close to their parent stars (unless the planet is very large the signal from its gravitational hug is too slight to detect with today's technology) so this batch won't produce good candidates for worlds with liquid surface water that might be suited for life.

A world with an iron core, rocky mantle and enough water on the surface to create liquid water oceans that could support life.

The second world still filled me with dread as I raced above that heinous purple liquid, avoiding, to the best of my ability (and successfully so) falling into the water and, subsequently, drowning.

Some of the extended bits that Fadem pulled off in that time: sitting down on a rubber stool, kicking a hole through a stage that would eventually collapse in full, slamming a weird sort of metal gate / screen - door combination affixed to the building's wall, jumping into the East River and then reappearing inside of a barrel of vaseline that was treated to looked like toxic sludge, hurling himself into a pile of cardboard boxes and then sounding the world's most pathetic airhorn, addressing the performance's one heckler with a drawn - out gesture involving his middle finger, drinking a number of glasses of water in rapid succession before moving to a sort of thick, clear liquid that he repeatedly spit up and attempted to drink again (I heard an audience member worry that this would trigger a series of chain - reaction vomiting in the audience.

But as Bolivia has heated with the rest of the world, those key stores of frozen and liquid water have dwindled and dried up.