The phrase "icy satellites" refers to moons or natural satellites that are made mostly of ice.
Sentences with «icy satellites»
Low scattered - light capability with coronagraphy and high - resolution spectroscopy enables to visualize neutral atmosphere and plasmas escaping from icy satellites of Jupiter and Saturn as well as Io that has active volcanoes. (planets.life)
Nobody had ever thought of this roughly 300 - mile - wide icy satellite as anything special — until the Cassini spacecraft witnessed geysers of water vapor blowing out from its surface. (discovermagazine.com)
These forces occur on Earth in glacial ice as it flows due to gravity, and in space as icy satellite bodies, such as the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, respond to tidal forces from their parent bodies. (sciencedaily.com)