As part of a long-term program of studying planetary ices, we are investigating the interaction of both reduced carbon and oxidized carbon with other volatiles to produce non-stoichiometric compounds (such as clathrates) and stoichiometric compounds (such as carbonates).
Hundreds of coastal dead zones have developed and the increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, now passing 400 parts per million for the first time in human history, is driving planetary warming, melting ice, sea level rise, and most worrisome of all, perhaps, acidification of the ocean.
However, the moon is too big and too close to Jupiter to be a solid hunk of ice, says planetary scientist John Anderson of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
The ices within planetary bodies will most likely have both ionic and molecular impurities and the trends outlined in this study can be used to improve density profiles of H2O-rich planetary bodies.
We have designed and built a laboratory facility to investigate the spectro-photometric and morphologic properties of different types of ice-bearing planetary surface analogs and follow their evolution upon exposure to a low pressure and low temperature environment.
These data, along with those in Daly et al. (2013), indicate that electrospray can charge a variety of planetary materials, including minerals, meteorites, mineral-ice mixtures, rock-ice mixtures, and ices.
The wastefulness was all ours but this fetid heat could be a planetary impersonal adjustment like an ice age, so it might well be wise to keep always facepaint and ash about us.
Scientists told UK MPs this week that the possibility of a major methane release triggered by melting Arctic ice constitutes a "planetary emergency".
She says that other groups have tried to model the collapse of clouds in the ISM into planetary systems to see if ice would survive, but "with various results, that don't always agree," Willacy says.
We have designed and constructed an original facility to characterize the VIS NIR Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function (BRDF) and some complementary bulk physical properties of planetary analog samples containing water ice.
