Description: Buoyant Rover for Under Ice Exploration Researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory are developing the Buoyant Rover for Under-Ice Exploration, a technology
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Mineral exploration is the process of finding ores (commercially viable concentrations of minerals) to mine . Mineral exploration is a much more intensive, organized and professional form of mineral prospecting and, though it frequently uses the services of prospecting, the process of mineral exploration on the whole is much more involved.
Ice is water frozen into a solid state. Depending on the presence of impurities such as particles of soil or bubbles of air , it can appear transparent or a more or less opaque bluish-white color.
In the Solar System , ice is abundant and occurs naturally from as close to the Sun as Mercury to as far as the Oort cloud . Beyond the Solar System, it occurs as interstellar ice . It is abundant on Earth 's surface – particularly in the polar regions and above the snow line – and, as a common form of precipitation and deposition , plays a key role in Earth's water cycle and climate . It falls as snowflakes and hail or occurs as frost, icicles or ice spikes .