Sentences with phrase «nitrogen ices cover»
A mixture of rock and water ice dominates Ceres» landscape, while methane and nitrogen ices cover Pluto.
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Although Charon is close in size to Pluto, it appears covered with water ice, whereas Pluto appears much redder and is blanketed in frozen nitrogen, methane, and carbon monoxide.
Instead, they appear bright white, more like the regions of Pluto covered in nitrogen ice, according to work presented at an American Astronomical Society meeting on 17 October by Will Grundy at the Lowell Observatory and Orkan M. Umurhan at the SETI Institute.
Pluto and Eris share a very similar planetary surface, that is mostly covered in nitrogen ice with a small amount of methane ice (more).
Eris and Pluto share a very similar planetary surface, that is mostly covered in nitrogen ice with a small amount of methane ice (more).