鸟神星的外观偏红色，光谱的观测指出其表面可能覆盖著甲烷冰。
Makemake is known to be a world somewhat red in appearance, with spectra indicating it is likely covered with frozen methane.
本周，工程队曾试图将一个100吨重的钢制屋形盖置于漏油点上，不过很快，不断积聚的甲烷冰堵塞了该装置，最终以失败告终。
Efforts failed this week to lower a 100-ton steel containment dome onto the leakage site, because quickly accumulated methane hydrates blocked the device.
但最近对泰坦内部的一项新研究却揭开了这颗奇异星球更为怪诞的一面：脆弱的甲烷冰地表之下，覆盖着一层冰泥，更深处依然是一个地下海洋，最中间是冰和岩石并存的固态核心。
But a new look at Titan's insides reveals even more oddities: Beneath the brittle crust of ice lies a layer of slush. Deeper still is an underground ocean over a solid core of rock and ice.
在远离太阳的外太阳系，在木星轨道之外，温度低到足以使冰从水以及甲烷和二氧化碳等气体中形成。
Far from the sun, in the outer solar system, beyond Jupiter's orbit, temperatures are low enough to permit ices to form out of water and out of gases like methane and carbon dioxide.
整个系统都要有介质加热和注入防冻液的途径，以避免形成类似冰的甲烷水合物（译者注，即可燃冰）。
Throughout the system there would be ways of warming things up and injecting antifreeze to stave off the formation of icelike methane hydrates.
一份新闻报告在星期一称，日本将设法从海床的甲烷水合物库存里开采天然气。“可燃冰”作为甲烷水合物在世界上第一次这样的离岸实验中的称呼也广为人知。
Japan will seek to extract natural gas from seabed deposits of methane hydrate, also known as "burning ice," in the world's first such offshore experiment, a news report said Monday.
人为增加大气中的甲烷，其氧化为二氧化碳和水汽后，能为平流层的冰提供更多的水份。
Human-caused increases in atmospheric methane, which oxidizes into carbon dioxide and water vapor, could be providing more water for ice in the stratosphere.
例如平均气温的上升，它会使长期冰藏在冰层里的二氧化碳和甲烷从永冻层里释放出来——相当于温室气体二氧化碳的20倍密度。
Rising average temperatures, for example, threaten to unlock long-frozen stores of carbon dioxide and methane -- at least 20 times as potent a greenhouse gas as CO2 -- from the region's permafrost.
它们以气体水合物的形式存在于海床之上——这种凝固的甲烷被称之为“可燃冰”。
This also exists on the ocean floor in the form of gas hydrates, a form of frozen methane also known as the "ice that burns."
日本周二宣布，已经成功地从日本海底提取出甲烷水合物，俗称“可燃冰”，此举可能将给这个资源贫乏的国家开启可延续多年的燃气资源宝藏。
Japan said Tuesday it had successfully extracted methane hydrate, known as "fire ice", from its seabed, possibly unlocking many years' worth of gas for the resource-starved country.
天然气水合物俗称可燃冰，甲烷水合物。
Gas hydrate is commonly called flammable ice, methane ice, methane hydrate.
日本称，周二他们已经成功将甲烷水合物从海底提取出来，俗称“可燃冰”，很可能为这个资源短缺的国家提供数年的燃气。
Japan said Tuesday it had successfully extracted methane hydrate, known as "fire ice", from its seabed, possibly unlocking many years' worth of gas for the resource-starved country.
据估计1立方米的可燃冰含有数倍于同体积甲烷气体的能量。
One of it is estimated to contain many times the equivalent volume of methane in gas form.
天然气水合物是由水分子和天然气分子在一定温度和压力下形成的似冰雪状结晶化合物，又称笼形水合物或“可燃冰”。由于形成天然气水合物的气体主要为甲烷，因而也常被称为甲烷水合物。
Gas hydrate is a ice-like crystalline compound, formed by water molecules and natural gas molecules under certain temperature and pressure conditions, also called clathrate hydrate or "fire ice".
天然气水合物是由水分子和天然气分子在一定温度和压力下形成的似冰雪状结晶化合物，又称笼形水合物或“可燃冰”。由于形成天然气水合物的气体主要为甲烷，因而也常被称为甲烷水合物。
Gas hydrate is a ice-like crystalline compound, formed by water molecules and natural gas molecules under certain temperature and pressure conditions, also called clathrate hydrate or "fire ice".
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