Sentences with phrase «frozen volatile ices»

Unlike most smaller Kuiper belt objects, these Pluto - sized bodies are mostly round, likely internally differentiated with the ice and rock separated, and contain frozen volatile ices, like nitrogen, carbon monoxide and methane, in varying amounts on their evolving surfaces.

Not exact matches

Forming in the system's colder outer regions, where volatile compounds such as water and carbon dioxide freeze out, makes it possible that the planets incorporated those ices and carried them along to a warmer place where they could melt, evaporate, and become oceans and atmospheres.

There, nitrogen and other «volatile» gases freeze solid in the cryogenic conditions, and water turns to rock - hard ice.

All the bright (radar - reflective) features are believed to be deposits of frozen volatile substances, likely water ice, at least several metres thick in the permanently shaded floors of craters.

We can clearly see from history that there were very large swings succinctly described in Professor Brian Fagan's book «The Little Ice Age»: «There was never a monolithic deep freeze rather a climatic see saw that swung constantly back and forwards in volatile and sometimes disastrous shifts.