Sentence examples for frozen atmosphere from inspiring English sources

The frozen atmosphere is heightened by the region's heavy snowfall, by the fact that kar is the Turkish word for "snow" (in early drafts, Pamuk titled his novel "Kars'ta Kar," or "Snow in Kars"), and by the fate of ninety thousand Ottoman soldiers who froze to death in a nearby forest during an ill-conceived operation against the Russian Army in the First World War.

When this freezing occurs in the free atmosphere, the frozen raindrops are referred to as sleet or ice pellets.

It is "the partially frozen vapor of the atmosphere falling in flakes," or so the Oxford English Dictionary says.

Spencer said that frozen hydrocarbons in the atmosphere produce the effect, which reaches up to 100 miles above Pluto's surface.

Among other notable pictures, Willard Leroy Metcalf's airy 1911 painting of pine trees casting blue shadows over snow and a frozen brook captures momentary atmosphere and temperature better than any painting in the show.

During the years surrounding Pluto's perihelion in 1989, when Pluto was slightly less cold than average, more of its frozen gases vaporized; the atmosphere was then at or near its thickest, making it a favourable time to study the body.

Scientists wanted to get there before Pluto began its slow retreat from the sun and temperatures plummeted, collapsing its atmosphere into frozen nitrogen.

Another crucial piece of information that would go into a model that predicts the release of methane into the atmosphere from frozen hydrates would be the size of the source.

According to the dynamic change between atmosphere, engineering construction and frozen soil, this study breaks up the frozen soil engineering system into two circles: the atmospheric engineering circle and the engineering frozen soil circle.

Grids were blotted for ∼4 s in a humidified atmosphere and plunge-frozen in liquid ethane in a home-made device.

Scientists know little about the second biggest moon in the solar system ­ a moon that is even bigger than the planet Mercury ­ except that it is obscured by an orange glow caused by frozen particles floating in its upper atmosphere.