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Solar System: Icy Worlds

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Solar System: Icy Worlds

Season 51 Episode 12 | 53m 34s | CC

Out in the solar system, ice can get bizarre. Visit strange, frozen worlds – from Uranus’s ultra-hot superionic ice, to glaciers of nitrogen ice on Pluto, to carbon dioxide snow on Mars – and discover why the ice here on Earth is so unique.

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