Ice is a Key component of the universe. There are frozen water molecules on comets, moons, exoplanets and in your drink when you refresh summer heat. However, under the microscope, all the ice is not the same, even if it is made of the same components.

The internal structure of the Earth’s ice is a cosmological oddity. Its molecules are arranged in geometric structures, generally hexagons which are repeated each other. Ice on earth is formed this way because of the temperatures and pressure from our planet: water freezes slowly, which is full of molecules to organize in crystals.

But the ice that forms in space is different due to the conditions – water exists in vacuum and is subject to extreme temperatures. It is believed that spatial ice, as a res’ is amorphous, devoid of a distinct organizational structure as on earth.

This presents a challenge for scientists trying to highlight the training of planets and the generation of life. Do not completely underestimate the dynamics of amorphous ice in space has drive effects. For example, not knowing exactly how spaces of space water makes it difficult to estimate the property of water in other solar systems.

The researchers therefore study space ice to gain a better under-tension of how frozen water behaves away from the earth. The ice samples of comets, asteroids and other debris of the SOE system would be useful, but they can be captured, scientists try to assume the Gavestand ice with computer models and the simulation of ice on earth. The more they study it, the more it reveals surprises.

During recent reports, published in the journal Physical review BPostulates that the amorphous ice which abounds in the universe has a kind of order. Paper theorizes that it is probably composed of structured fragments – crystallized regions, as on earth, but only about 3 nanometers wide – aroused by chaos.