Sentences with phrase «polar ice shell»
«I was very happy to see this new work by Kite and Rubin that brings to the fore a process that had escaped notice: the pumping of water in and out of the deep fractures of the south polar ice shell by tidal action,» said Carolyn Porco, head of Cassini's imaging science team and a leading scientist in the study of Enceladus.
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Kite and Rubin have proposed that new Cassini data can test this idea by revealing whether or not the ice shell in the south polar region is warm.