Solar System: Icy Worlds Preview
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Visit strange, frozen worlds to discover the bizarre ice that forms beyond Earth.
Out in the solar system, ice can get bizarre. Visit strange, frozen worlds – from Uranus’s ultra-hot superionic ice, to glaciers of nitrogen ice on Pluto, to carbon dioxide snow on Mars – and discover why the ice here on Earth is so unique.
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Solar System: Icy Worlds Preview
Preview: Season 51 Episode 12 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
Out in the solar system, ice can get bizarre. Visit strange, frozen worlds – from Uranus’s ultra-hot superionic ice, to glaciers of nitrogen ice on Pluto, to carbon dioxide snow on Mars – and discover why the ice here on Earth is so unique.
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- These ice worlds are so unexpected and surprising.
- Deep in the planet of Uranus, you get this extremely dense, hot ice.
- [Speaker 1] It's like something out of science fiction.
- How did these icy worlds even form?
How did the ice get there?
Is there life there?
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