Ice is a Key component in the universe. There are frozen water molecules on comets, moons, exoplanets and in your drink as you cool off the summer heat. However, under the microscope, not all ice is the same, even if it is of the same components.
The internal structure of the earth’s ice is a cosmological strangeness. The molecules are arranged in geometric structures, usually heights that repeat each other. In this way, ice on earth forms due to the temperature and pressure of the our planet: Water here is slowly freezing, and it makes its molecules arrange themselves in crystals.
But ice that forms in space is different because of the conditions – the water exists in a vacuum and is subject to extreme temperatures. It is believed that space cruise is amorphous, without a clear organizational structure such as on earth.
It presents a challenge for scientists who try to understand the formation of planets and the generation of life. Not to fully understand the dynamics of amorphous ice cream in space has effects. For example, if you do not know exactly how space water freezes it makes it difficult to estimate the amount of water in other solar systems.
Researchers thus study spatial ice to gain a better understanding of how frozen water acts away from the earth. Ice samples of comets, asteroids and other debris in the solar system will be helpful, but until it can be captured, scientists try to understand space -making with computer models and simulations of ice on earth. The more they study it, the more surprises it reveals.
In a recent report, published in the journal Physical Review B, it is said that the amorphous ice that abounds in the universe has a kind of order. The newspaper probably theorizes it from structured fragments – crystallized regions, such as on earth, but only about 3 nanometer wide – through chaos.