Cratered Cliffs of Ice on Saturn's Tethys, Oct 12/05
Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 4:08 am
How come it does not look like cracked ice?cracked during freezing
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Cratered Cliffs of Ice on Saturn's Tethys, Oct 12/05
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Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 8:05 am
I suppose it would be a gradually cooling = gradual cracking - not like jsut smashing an ice cube.
I know what you're saying though - they do look more like channels than cracks, but then I'm no planetary expert.
I know what you're saying though - they do look more like channels than cracks, but then I'm no planetary expert.
Ice
Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 8:23 am
I think the lighter stuff on the bottom of craters looks like cracked ice. About the "channels"- could'n that be originated through planetary movement? Just like the river-like gorges in glaciers on earth. 
Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 11:21 am
Yeah.... - though that would suggest either cooling from the INSIDE out, or cryovolcanism.
Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 12:22 pm
As meteors impact; the cleaner ice underneath probably gets exposed. It looks almost more like packed snow.
Orin
Orin
Ice planet
Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 6:25 pm
or it could be frost?
cracked ice
Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 9:02 pm
Saturn is tugging at it's children
Re: cracked ice
Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 12:07 am
ta152h0 wrote:Saturn is tugging at it's children
adopted children??????????????
Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2005 1:15 am
How many "sling shot" type maneuvers would it take to finally get an object into a orbit like this one? 
Norval
Norval