Ice in Space Astronomy cast. Episode 225.
Ice is present in space. In 2015 the new Horizon Mission will travel through the Pluto system. The Horizon Mission's flight plan is to land on unknown objects. And before 2016 and 2020 they must discover which objects they will land on by taking thousands of pictures of the region of the solar system. After passing the Asteroid belt, some of the moons of the planets behind the belt are entirely made of ice. The ice is more than just water, it is ammonia, methane and many different chemicals. The ice comes from the same elements that created our solar system. The moon also contains H20, yet the problem is that the water is mixed with the soil and would require massive amounts of energy to extract out of it.
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