Sentences with phrase «dirty water ice»
The C ring also appears relatively bright here; not because it is made of dust, but because the material in it — mostly dirty water ice — is translucent.
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Things get otherworldly at the rear of the lab, where the researchers create temporary caves of dirty blue and black ice by blasting through an exposed ice wall with hot water for at least 24 hours.
Interior Astronomers hoped the probe would confirm that comets fit the popular model of a «dirty snowball»: an icy core made up of a solid mix of water ice, dirt, and frozen gases like carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide, coated with a thin crust of debris.
These larger, charged molecules could attract the atmosphere's sparse water, creating what Plane calls «dirty» ice crystals.
This dirty ice represented muddy water from Lake Vostok that had frozen back onto the bottom of the ice sheet.
The Arctic Ocean's sea ice and waters are habitat for many imperiled species, from polar bears to bowhead whales — and they all face the threat of dirty fossil - fuel development.