Worlds of snow and ice
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
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How Do You Make Ice Cream?
Tidal forces are the same stuff that makes io over a jupiter, such a nasty place to visit. The salts getting into the ice shell is a bit of a different process but it's kind of something that we took as an idea from things that happen on earth. Once you have any regions or something like that thatis a higher, has a higher content of these salts that can actually reduce the melting point and provide a localization for the first spot to melt within these shells. And once you concentrate those may be through different processes, you can keep melting easier and easier.
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