Sentences with phrase «hot ejecta»

That left the researchers with the idea that meltwater, produced when hot ejecta interacted with an icy surface, carved the Lyot valleys.

But also new elements are created in the hot ejecta of the explosion, among them radioactive species such as 44Ti (titanium with 22 protons and 22 neutrons in its atomic nuclei) and 56Ni (28/28 neutrons / protons), which decay to stable calcium and iron, respectively.

Not exact matches

So do volcanoes, by emitting hot rocks that warm the air and ejecta that shade the Earth from the Sun and cause cooling.