Sentence examples for icy bedrock from inspiring English sources
In the ice sublimation hypothesis, the low-lying dark material is interpreted as a blanket of primarily non-ice debris, which originated from the degraded rims of craters and has covered a predominantly icy bedrock.
On Titan, meteorite impacts into the icy bedrock would provide the requisite liquid in the form of impact melt to hydrolyse any solid organics (Artemieva & Lunine, 2003 ▸, 2005 ▸) and both urea and ammonium carbonate may be substantial by-products, persisting on geological timescales at the surface temperature of 95 K.
I learn a lot about their project in the Katabatic Bar where the icy clink of glasses allows more bedrock to move.
Microbiological investigations in the very ancient strata of the Antarctic ice cover, nearest to the bedrock, support the effectiveness of using a combination of different methods to search for signs of life in ancient icy formations, which might play a role in the long-term preservation and transportation of microbial life throughout the Universe.
