Sentences with phrase «volatile ices such»
Much of this activity is enabled by the existence of volatile ices such as N2 and CO that are easily mobilized even at the extremely low temperatures prevalent on Pluto's surface, around 40 K.
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Forming in the system's colder outer regions, where volatile compounds such as water and carbon dioxide freeze out, makes it possible that the planets incorporated those ices and carried them along to a warmer place where they could melt, evaporate, and become oceans and atmospheres.
Impacts exposing subsurface ice deposits and generating hydrothermal activity are one possible explanation for the bright spots and Herschel's water vapor; «cryovolcanoes» that erupt volatiles such as water rather than rock are another.
When comets approach their host stars, their surfaces warm up, and volatile materials such as ice start to vaporize, forming long tails of gas and debris that absorb specific colors of light from their host stars.
On March 21, 2012, the MESSENGER team also revealed new supporting evidence that many permanently shadowed craters in Mercury's polar regions may harbor water ice insulated with a thin layer of soil or dust, or some other radar - reflecting volatile substance such as sulfur.
Given the abusive home life Harding endured — first with her cruel and demanding mother (Allison Janney), later with the volatile ex-husband who caused her downfall, Jeff Gillooly (Sebastian Stan)-- it was amazing she could get out on the ice and skate for years at such an elite level, LaRoche said.
[1] Martian lava tubes could possibly trap volatiles such as water which is considered essential for life, and may also contain reservoirs of ancient ice since cold air can pool in lava tubes and temperatures remain stable.