While in the air, he tested the samples to see whether he could make the dust particles in
them create ice nuclei again, inside his instrument.
The ability to essentially re-create in the aircraft what the researchers believed was happening out in the cloud further confirmed that the dust particles were
creating ice nuclei.
Not exact matches
Usually when comets approach the sun, their
ices erupt from the
nucleus,
creating a gaseous coma and tails.