Sentences with phrase «whose icy surfaces»

Most meteor showers are thought to come from comets, whose icy surfaces vaporise easily during close encounters with the sun.

Not exact matches

Not far from a range of giant ice mountains on Pluto lies a vast stretch of icy plains whose surface is broken into cell - like blocks by snaking troughs, new photos by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft reveal.
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