News tagged with water vapour
Fool's gold may prove an unlikely alternative to overexploited catalytic materials
Catalytic materials, which lower the energy barriers for chemical reactions, are used in everything from the commercial production of chemicals to catalytic converters in car engines. However, with current catalytic materials ...
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Collecting carbon in a concrete jungle
Land unsuitable for tree planting could still be used to reduce levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere thanks to new research.
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Water supersaturation in the Martian atmosphere discovered
(PhysOrg.com) -- New analysis of data sent back by the SPICAM spectrometer on board ESA's Mars Express spacecraft has revealed for the first time that the planet's atmosphere is supersaturated with water vapour. ...
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Sep 29, 2011 |
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How plants space out the pores through which they breathe
The way in which plants space out the pores through which they breathe depends on keeping a protein active during stem cell growth, according to John Innes Centre scientists.
Sep 08, 2011 |
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Mars' northern polar regions in transition
A newly released image from ESA's Mars Express shows the north pole of Mars during the red planet's summer solstice. All the carbon dioxide ice has gone, leaving just a bright cap of water ice.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 05, 2011 |
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Enceladus rains water onto Saturn
(PhysOrg.com) -- ESA's Herschel space observatory has shown that water expelled from the moon Enceladus forms a giant torus of water vapour around Saturn. The discovery solves a 14-year mystery by identifying ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 26, 2011 |
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The hot atmosphere of Venus might cool its interior: study
The heat in the atmosphere of Venus, induced from a strong greenhouse warming, might actually have a cooling effect on the planet's interior. This counter-intuitive theory is based on calculations from a new ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 21, 2010 |
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Recipe for water: Just add starlight
ESA's (European Space Agency) Herschel infrared space observatory has discovered that ultraviolet starlight is a key ingredient for making water in the atmosphere of some stars. It is the only explanation ...
Sep 01, 2010 |
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A laser shines light on the catalytic converter
(PhysOrg.com) -- Catalytic converters are encountered everywhere in our cars and in the chemical industry. However, the chemical reaction is not well understood. A discovery made at the EPFL may help to shed light on a field ...
Aug 03, 2010 |
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European Extremely Large Telescope site chosen
On April 26, 2010, the ESO Council selected Cerro Armazones as the baseline site for the planned 42-meter European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT). Cerro Armazones is a mountain at an altitude of 3060 meters ...
Apr 26, 2010 |
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Enceladus leaves plasma bubbles in its wake
(PhysOrg.com) -- Observations of how Saturn’s moon Enceladus interacts with its environment show it leaves a complex pattern of ripples and bubbles in its wake. Sheila Kanani will be presenting the results ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 15, 2010 |
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The secrets of Saturn's moons
(PhysOrg.com) -- Saturn's moons have become a source of increasing fascination thanks to a stream of data from the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft.
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Apr 13, 2010 |
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Pin-pointing water in space
(PhysOrg.com) -- Water is regarded as a key ingredient for life - and water exists plenty in the universe. Now scientists have found the precious element in a disk around a young star, similar to our Sun. ...
Feb 26, 2010 |
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Better weather forecasts with a map showing atmospheric vapour
Weather forecasts, satellite navigation in cars and the inspection of dikes or natural gas fields: these applications using satellite data would all be even more accurate if we knew more about the distribution of water vapour ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 09, 2010 |
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Scientists find signs of liquid water in Saturn's moon
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists working on the Cassini mission to Saturn have found evidence of liquid water on the planet's icy moon Enceladus, suggesting the possibility of life below its surface.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 08, 2010 |
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