Sentence examples for ice shells from inspiring English sources

Beuthe, M., Rivoldini, A. & Trinh, A. Enceladus's and Dione's floating ice shells supported by minimum stress isostasy.

The researchers simulated impacts of comets of various sizes and densities, traveling at different velocities, on ice shells of several thicknesses.

The 150 terabyte data set is the first that will allow researchers to watch the fracturing of ice shells within a three week time span, nearly tracking changes on the ice in real time.

Six ice cover types (ice shells, suspended ice cover, surface floating ice cover, surface confined ice cover, solid ice, and no ice) and five ice processes (active frazil ice and anchor ice, hanging dams, ice dams, aufeis, and ice jams) are considered.

If anything, the findings intensify interest in the possibility of life on Mars and large moons such as Titan and Europa, which are suspected of containing liquid water beneath their ice shells".

Makris, "Mechanics of tidally induced fractures in Europa's ice shell," Icarus 177, 367-379 (2005).

"It has revealed a tremendous amount of information about the ocean that is present beneath Enceladus' ice shell," Hertz said.

Čadek, O. et al. Enceladus's internal ocean and ice shell constrained from Cassini gravity, shape, and libration data.

Other scientists had previously suggested reasons for the lag, which included a delay in the eruptions as well as a squishy, slowly responding ice shell.

The goals of the mission are to characterize the subsurface ocean and global ice shell and assess the satellite as a possible habitat for past or extant life.

The researchers, from the University of Arizona, have modeled comet impacts on the moon and come up with a minimum thickness of the ice shell.