Sentences with phrase «icy bodies occur»
«As impacts between icy bodies occur throughout the solar system, then complex organic molecules are also, very probably, widespread.»
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These forces occur on Earth in glacial ice as it flows due to gravity, and in space as icy satellite bodies, such as the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, respond to tidal forces from their parent bodies.
«Some of the same processes that take place in deep space may occur in these icy bodies in the supercold outer regions of the solar system,» Allamandola says.
«These findings could challenge our current thinking on the physics occurring in the interiors of icy planetary bodies,» Goncharov said.
The key factor in determining if a crack is going to occur is the strain rate, the rate of pull from another body that would have caused the moons to deform at a rate that the top, icy layer could not sustain — leading to cracks.