News tagged with frozen water
Microwaving Water from Moondust (w/ Video)
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 08, 2009 |
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NASA is figuring out how to make water from moondust. Sounds like magic? "No magic--" says Ed Ethridge of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center "-- just microwaves. We're showing how microwaves can extract water ...
HiRISE Sees Signs of an Unearthly Spring on Mars
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New images from the HiRISE experiment detail patterns of dust carried by gas from beneath the seasonal ice cap.
Scientists confirms liquid-liquid phase transition in silicon
Mar 16, 2009 |
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Using rigorous computer calculations, researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the Carnegie Institution of Washington have established evidence that supercooled silicon experiences a liquid-liquid phase transition, ...
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Cousin of the 'ice that burns' emerges as greener new way to fight fires
Apr 23, 2009 |
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(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 ...
'Frozen smoke:' The ultimate sponge for cleaning up oil spills
Feb 16, 2009 |
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Scientists in Arizona and New Jersey are reporting that aerogels, a super-lightweight solid sometimes called "frozen smoke," may serve as the ultimate sponge for capturing oil from wastewater and effectively ...
How the moon got its stripes
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 15, 2009 |
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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 ...
Model Suggests Origins of Mars Gullies
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 09, 2009 |
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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.
Phoenix Lander Prepares for Microscopy, Wet Chemistry on Mars
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 24, 2008 |
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NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has delivered a scoop of Martian soil from the "Snow White" trenches to the optical microscope for analysis tomorrow, June 24, the 29th Martian day of the mission, or Sol 29.
NASA Debuts Unique Movie on a Sphere About Frozen Earth
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 18, 2009 |
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NASA has created a unique "spherical" movie about Earth's changing ice and snow cover as captured by NASA spacecraft. "Frozen," a 12-minute, narrated film, premieres at science centers and museums March 27.
Polar Sea Ice replicated in Hamburg
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- As northern Europe enjoys a rather warm start to autumn, an international team of 20 polar scientists have brought icy winter conditions to the middle of Hamburg, Germany. They are studying the effect of ...
Slow-frozen people? Latest research supports possibility of cryopreservation
Jun 20, 2006 |
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The latest research on water - still one of the least understood of all liquids despite a century of intensive study – seems to support the possibility that cells, tissues and even the entire human body could be cryopreserved ...
Mars Express radar gauges water quantity around Mars south pole
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 15, 2007 |
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The amount of water trapped in frozen layers over Mars' south polar region is equivalent to a liquid layer about 11 metres deep covering the planet.
Phoenix Mars Lander Continues Tests With Rasp
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 18, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The team operating NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander plans to tell the lander today to do a second, larger test of using a motorized rasp to produce and gather shavings of frozen ground.
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