Just because the chunks evaporated doesn't prove anything. It could be dry ice, which is not water ice. The scientists and the press have been a little irresponsible sensationalizing what could very well be the sublimation of dry ice. I would trust a spectroscopic analysis over a couple of pictures any day.
i agree with uhkolieb. Someone marked his comment as spam and its not. Its a valid question. Why are they calling this water ice when they know very well that theres tons of frozen carbon dioxide not too far away which makes up most of the polar ice cap? Why is this frozen water, and not frozen carbon dioxide?
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Just because the chunks evaporated doesn't prove anything. It could be dry ice, which is not water ice. The scientists and the press have been a little irresponsible sensationalizing what could very well be the sublimation of dry ice. I would trust a spectroscopic analysis over a couple of pictures any day.
uhkolieb 3 years ago
i agree with uhkolieb. Someone marked his comment as spam and its not. Its a valid question. Why are they calling this water ice when they know very well that theres tons of frozen carbon dioxide not too far away which makes up most of the polar ice cap? Why is this frozen water, and not frozen carbon dioxide?
Props2u 3 years ago