News tagged with ice formation
Frozen comet had a watery past, scientists find
For the first time, scientists have found convincing evidence for the presence of liquid water in a comet, shattering the current paradigm that comets never get warm enough to melt the ice that makes up the ...
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Apr 05, 2011 |
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Early initiation of Arctic sea-ice formation
Significant sea ice formation occurred in the Arctic earlier than previously thought is the conclusion of a study published this week in Nature. "The results are also especially exciting because they suggest that sea ice fo ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 15, 2009 |
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The water reservoir in a young planetary system
(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers once thought that the process of star formation was more-or-less controlled by the simple coalescence of material by gravity, leading eventually to a new star. But they have come ...
Nov 15, 2011 |
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Some Antarctic ice is forming from bottom
Scientists working in the remotest part of Antarctica have discovered that liquid water locked deep under the continent's coat of ice regularly thaws and refreezes to the bottom, creating as much as half the ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 03, 2011 |
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The secret life of water at very low temperatures
The secret life of water just got weirder. For years water has been known to exist in 15 phases -- not just the merry threesome of solid, liquid and gas from grade school science. Now, University of Utah chemists ...
Jun 16, 2010 |
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Model Suggests Origins of Mars Gullies
University of Arkansas researchers have used chemistry and geology to create a model that may explain the mystery of how modern-day gullies form on the surface of Mars.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 09, 2009 |
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Declining sea ice to lead to cloudier Arctic: study
Arctic sea ice has been declining over the past several decades as global climate has warmed. In fact, sea ice has declined more quickly than many models predicted, indicating that climate models may not be correctly representing ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 31, 2012 |
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Japan aims to bury greenhouse gas emissions
Swathes of dirty clouds brood over a coal plant in rural Japan, but scientists are now hoping to send the pollutants the other way, deep into the bowels of Mother Earth.
Nov 01, 2009 |
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