Sentences with phrase «forming ice crusts»
«Drawn by the gravitational field of the sun, bits of cosmic ice vaporize and explode... Ice crystals descend on the planets, forming ice crusts and in the case of the Earth rain.
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Think of this no - cook pie as a deconstructed hot fudge sundae in an ice - cream cone — crushed cones form the crust cradling the malt - flavored ice cream and toppings.
Scoop ice cream and carefully drop it on top of the granola crust, alternating between pistachio and raspberry, and snugly arranging the scoops inside the spring form until filled completely.
Such a crust could have formed as energetic particles known as cosmic rays bombarded the object over its lifetime, creating an ice - free surface rich in organic compounds.
The region's birth in a giant impact must have excavated so much ice from Pluto's surface that watery slush welled up from deeper within, plumping up to form a heavy, planetary - scale bruise beneath the thinner crust.
Lakes may form when meteorite impacts heat ice in the crust or when underground reservoirs of water kept liquid by geothermal heat leak onto the surface.
«Unique diamond impurities indicate water deep in Earth's mantle: Scientific analysis of diamond impurities — known as inclusions — reveal naturally forming ice crystals and point to water - rich regions deep below the Earth's crust.»
They insist that dynamic features like Conamara Chaos could form even in a thick ice crust.
New crust, or in Europa's case, ice, is forced upward through the spaces between the plates where it forms newer crust.
As this water moves through rocks, it dissolves salt compounds and pushes through fractures in the overlying ice to form reservoirs closer the moon's surface, where it is expelled into space when the outermost layer of the crust cracks open and the resulting depressurization of these reservoirs causes water vapor and ice particles to shoot out in the observed plumes.