Sentence examples for icy crust from inspiring English sources

The top layer of the satellite is an icy crust about 150 km (90 miles) thick.

But the evidence was indirect and the ocean out of sight, under an icy crust.

Haumea is elongated in shape and is made up of a rocky interior covered by a thin icy crust.

It is thought the water comes from a global ocean that lies underneath the moon's icy crust.

Earth's oceans, though, are smaller than those beneath the icy crust of Europa and Europa's siblings Callisto and Ganymede may well have subsurface oceans, too, as may Triton.

The interior models, the induced field, and some unusual surface features suggest that a liquid ocean may lie hidden within or below the icy crust.

Some astronomers speculate that Jupiter's moon Europa may be hiding an ocean of warm water and possibly even some kind of life beneath an icy crust.

Callisto has a weak magnetic field induced by Jupiter's field that may imply the existence of a layer of liquid water below its icy crust.

In spite of Mimas's small size, it shows some evidence of resurfacing, possibly resulting from a partial melting of the icy crust.

The flatness of Europa's surface indicates that the icy crust was relatively warm, soft, and mobile for at least a substantial part of its early history.

Unlike most objects in the Kuiper belt, Haumea is not an equal mixture of ice and rock but has a thin icy crust covering a rocky interior.