By the time the solar system was a million years old, it was full of specks of carbon and silicon carrying their mantle of irregular, amorphous ice.
BEVERAGES: Iced Tea, Iced Coffee, Iced Milk, Iced Diet Pepsi (or Irregular Pepsi) and of course, Iced Ice.
Although these comets exhibit a wide variety of shapes and surface features, all of them are dark, irregular aggregates of ice, dust, and pebbles, measuring a few kilometers across.
It consists of balls or irregular lumps of ice, each of which is called a hailstone.
But it was probably the sheer audacity of attempting to land Rosetta's tiny robotic probe, Philae, on an irregular lump of dust, ice and rock 405m kilometres (252m miles) from Earth, that won the world over two years ago.
I was not surprised when I found out from the artist that he was inspired by a winter walk on a lake that had frozen quickly into black ice, with irregular planes of crystallized shapes that sparkled in the sunlight as he moved briskly along.
Large hailstones are often characterized by alternating layers of clear and opaque ice, caused by irregular rates of freezing.
Rather, they were smaller splotches I came to think of as Dalmatian ice, because the irregular spots of bright white, floating in stark contrast to the dark water, resembled the dappled flank of a fireman's dog (albeit in negative).
Reflection on surfaces of an ice block is irregular preventing clear visual observation.
