We drank hot coffee with vanilla ice cream in clear glass mugs.
Our rear end continued its lazy rotation until, still under a second into the event, on the right side of the windshield, glowing in the clear ice forming on the glass, I saw the propane truck's headlights, shining toward us.
With optical modules concentrated in the extremely clear ice at the bottom-center of IceCube, DeepCore will utilize the surrounding IceCube detector as an active veto against the copious cosmic-ray muon background.
Snowflakes appear white in color despite being made of clear ice.
The detector will consist of 4800 optical sensors deployed at depths between 1450 and 2500 m in clear Antarctic ice evenly distributed over 80 strings.
Cool fact: These ice machines produce 35 to 40 pounds of clear ice, just like the ones in bars.
CLEAR ICE Q: I have always wondered why the ice that comes from a home freezer, whether it's made in trays or by an automatic ice maker is "clouded," while purchased, bagged ice is always crystal clear.
"To be clear, ICE is a dark market," Senator Maria Cantwell, Democrat of Washington, said during a Senate debate in May.
First filter and boil the water to get clear ice.
Clear ice and snow off of the shingles.
