Earth orbits the Sun at a distance that allows both liquid water and water ice to exist on its surface in ample amounts. We like to think we’re pretty familiar with the various forms water can take, but new research suggests that water ice on Uranus and Neptune could take a bizarre new form that just doesn’t exist here on our home planet.
It’s called superionic ice, and while its existence on the distant planets in our system is still just a theory, researchers just successfully produced some of the “exotic” ice in a lab, with the help of some seriously powerful lasers.
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