Sentence examples for frigid surface from inspiring English sources

But even from that far away, the comet will be bathed in ten times more solar energy than it was last year, making its frigid surface billow with gas and dust.

The persistence of the massive, explosive fissures on the surface of Saturn's sixth-largest moon, Enceladus — despite the moon's astoundingly frigid surface — have remained a mystery for 11 years.

— For days, the New York State Police scoured the sandy shorelines of the Hudson River, looking for a man whose fiancée said had slipped under the frigid surface when his kayak capsized during a weekend excursion.

Martinson said the current, which flows about 200 yards below the frigid surface water, began to warm significantly in the 1980s, and that warming in turn caused wind patterns to change in ways that ultimately brought more warm water to shore.

So perhaps Mustafar is more like Io, a tidally heated world with a frigid surface.

But how could water flow on or even near the planet's frigid surface?

Reporting in The Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, the researchers proposed that charged particles from the sun could be getting trapped at slightly different depths of the frigid lunar surface, forming electric fields.

Scientists have continued to look however because it is considered an excellent candidate given its frigid conditions: the surface temperature is about minus 180 Celsius.

NASA's Dawn spacecraft has found several more bright spots as well as a pyramid-like peak jutting out of the frigid world's surface.

Sometime between then and now, the atmosphere went away, and Mars today is an airless, frigid desert with average surface temperatures of minus 64 degrees Fahrenheit, or minus 53 degrees Celsius.

But after bubbling just a few meters toward the surface in frigid water, oil thickens into a more viscous form that doesn't respond to dispersants as readily as more fluid oil.