News tagged with water vapor

Earliest watery black hole discovered

Water really is everywhere. Two teams of astronomers, each led by scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), have discovered the largest and farthest reservoir of water ever detected in ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jul 22, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (18) | comments 44 | with audio podcast

Microbial life on Mars: Could saltwater make it possible?

(PhysOrg.com) -- How common are droplets of saltwater on Mars? Could microbial life survive and reproduce in them? A new million-dollar NASA project led by the University of Michigan aims to answer those questions.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 17, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 16 | with audio podcast

Asteroid strike into ocean could deplete ozone layer

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists in Texas say if a medium-sized asteroid were to crash into the ocean the ozone layer could be depleted, allowing high levels of ultraviolet radiation to reach the surface.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 27, 2010 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (17) | comments 7 | with audio podcast report

A hot new look at working fuel cells

Measuring a fuel cell's overall performance is relatively easy, but measuring its components individually as they work together is a challenge. That's because one of the best experimental techniques for investigating ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Oct 05, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Pair claim they can make ammonia to fuel cars for just 20 cents per liter

(PhysOrg.com) -- John Fleming of SilverEagles Energy and Tim Maxwell from Texas Tech University, say they have developed a way to make ammonia that is cheap enough so that it could be used as fuel for cars. If th ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Sep 05, 2011 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (22) | comments 41 | with audio podcast weblog

Positronium scatters like an electron

(PhysOrg.com) -- Positronium atoms have been found to scatter off gas particles in the same way as lone electrons, a finding which could help astronomers interpret some of their more puzzling observations, ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 05, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (15) | comments 9 | with audio podcast report

A low-cost catalyst prepares to take on power-plant emissions

(PhysOrg.com) -- Materials scientists develop clean nanoparticle-based catalysts that convert nitrogen oxides to nitrogen and water vapor.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Oct 04, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Cassini sees Saturn stressing out Enceladus

(PhysOrg.com) -- Images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft have, for the first time, enabled scientists to correlate the spraying of jets of water vapor from fissures on Saturn's moon Enceladus with the way Saturn's ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 20, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Cassini finds warm cracks on Enceladus

New images and data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft give scientists a unique Saturn-lit view of active fissures through the south polar region of Saturn's moon Enceladus. They reveal a more complicated web ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 01, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Is it snowing microbes on Enceladus?

There's a tiny moon orbiting beyond Saturn's rings that's full of promise, and maybe -- just maybe -- microbes.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Strange Martian Spirals Explained

Almost 40 years ago, NASA's Mariner 9 spacecraft relayed to Earth the first video images of Mars' northern polar ice cap, revealing a strange pattern of spiral swirls that has puzzled scientists ever since. ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 16, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (12) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Space shuttle science shows how 1908 Tunguska explosion was caused by a comet

The mysterious 1908 Tunguska explosion that leveled 830 square miles of Siberian forest was almost certainly caused by a comet entering the Earth's atmosphere, says new Cornell University research. The conclusion ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 24, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (19) | comments 15

Jets on Saturn's moon Enceladus not geysers from underground ocean

Water vapor jets that spew from the surface of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus are not really geysers from an underground ocean as initially envisioned by planetary scientists, according to a study led by the ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 24, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (12) | comments 8

Saturn's moon Enceladus spreads its influence

(PhysOrg.com) -- Chalk up one more feat for Saturn's intriguing moon Enceladus. The small, dynamic moon spews out dramatic plumes of water vapor and ice -- first seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in 2005. ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 22, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

Technology breakthrough fuels laptops and phones, recharges scientist's 60-year career

How does a scientist fuel his enthusiasm for chemistry after 60 years? By discovering a new energy source, of course.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Feb 17, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (21) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

Water vapor

Water vapor or water vapour (see spelling differences), also aqueous vapor, is the gas phase of water. Water vapor is one state of the water cycle within the hydrosphere. Water vapor can be produced from the evaporation or boiling of liquid water or from the sublimation of ice. Under normal atmospheric conditions, water vapor is continuously generated by evaporation and removed by condensation. Water vapor is a greenhouse gas along with carbon dioxide and methane.

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