Sentences with phrase «vaporise ice on the surfaces»

But it is not clear how common ice might be in the main asteroid belt, because sunlight is expected to quickly vaporise ice on the surfaces of airless bodies that fly closer to the sun than Jupiter.

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They are thought to occur when the Sun's heat vaporises newly exposed ice on the comet, blasting dust off its surface.
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