Originally Posted by
Sol88
Spontaneous formation of nonspherical water ice grains in a plasma environment
So 'ice' need not be hidden under the rock/dust layer!
Apparently you cannot read, but that was already widely known.
The plasma does not magically create the water that turns into ice grains.
As described in the paper:
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Figure 1 is a schematic sketch of our apparatus which differs from that used by Shimizu et al. [2010] by having direct injection of water vapor
and then they (and others) find that ice grains can be created, as the plasma temperature is low and the pressure is low (you know you can boil and freeze water at the same time if you lower the pressure at room temperature, we do it all the time in the lab for people visiting the labs, next to blowing up marshmellows), and interestingly in this case they are non-spherical.
no rabbit hole, it's just that you don't understand physics (nobody is perfect) and you just make up your own stories.