News tagged with water ice
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Peering under the ice of a collapsing polar coast
Starting this month, a giant NASA DC-8 aircraft loaded with geophysical instruments and scientists will buzz at low level over the coasts of West Antarctica, where ice sheets are collapsing at a pace far beyond ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 07, 2009 |
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Southern Arizona Telescopes Will Point at Lunar Impact Early Friday
(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers at the some of the best ground-based telescopes in southern Arizona plan to observe two lunar impacts at 4:30 a.m. and 4:34 a.m. Arizona time Friday.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 07, 2009 |
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Scientists see water ice in fresh meteorite craters on Mars
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists are seeing sub-surface water ice that may be 99 percent pure halfway between the north pole and the equator on Mars, thanks to quick-turnaround observations from orbit of fresh ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 24, 2009 |
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Ice Gets Bent Out of Shape
For the first time, scientists have built completely flat, two-layer ice. While theoreticians have predicted that such ices are formed by squeezing water molecules between two surfaces, scientists at Pacific ...
Sep 09, 2009 |
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Commerce secretary approves Arctic fisheries plan
(AP) -- The nation's secretary of commerce has approved a plan that would prohibit an expansion of commercial fishing in the Arctic, at least until more is known about the area.
Aug 21, 2009 |
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How the moon got its stripes
A new study has revealed the origins of tiger stripes and a subsurface ocean on Enceladus- one of Saturn's many moons. These geological features are believed to be the result of the moon's unusual chemical ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 15, 2009 |
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Mars data published in Science this week
Four papers in the journal Science this week offer new details about the history of water on Mars, gleaned from the 2008 NASA Phoenix Mars Mission that was operated from The University of Arizona.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 02, 2009 |
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Many characteristics of Mars, including ice, are similar to Earth
Mars gets as far as 250 million miles away, but many parts of it closely resemble places on Earth, including its landscape, history of water, soil and even its weather, says a Texas A&M University researcher ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 02, 2009 |
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Scientists Observe Liquid Water Below Freezing
(PhysOrg.com) -- Below 0 °C, water turns to ice. But beyond that, or below about -75 °C, the ice may turn back into liquid water. While scientists have previously predicted this phase transition with computer ...
Jun 24, 2009 |
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Seaglider monitors waters from Arctic during record-breaking journey under ice (w/Video)
The University of Washington has surpassed its 2-year-old world record for operating a glider under the ice, this time by successfully operating one of its seagliders for six months as it made round trips ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 28, 2009 |
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Cousin of the 'ice that burns' emerges as greener new way to fight fires
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers in Japan are reporting development of a new type of ice that may provide a more efficient, environmentally-friendly method for putting out fires, including out-of control blazes ...
Apr 23, 2009 |
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Catastrophic sea levels 'distinct possibility' this century: study
A breakthrough study of fluctuations in sea levels the last time Earth was between ice ages, as it is now, shows that oceans rose some three meters in only decades due to collapsing ice sheets.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 15, 2009 |
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Scientists Discover Pentagonal Ice
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Liverpool have discovered a five-sided ice chain structure that could be used to modify future weather patterns.
Apr 07, 2009 |
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HiRISE Sees Signs of an Unearthly Spring on Mars
(PhysOrg.com) -- New images from the HiRISE experiment detail patterns of dust carried by gas from beneath the seasonal ice cap.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 25, 2009 |
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Linking Climate Change in Siberia and Britain
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have for first time demonstrated a critical link between the Siberian climate and the circulation of the major current system which gives us our mild winters here in the UK. This new understanding ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 23, 2009 |
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