The Specific and Unique Property of Water That Was Responsible

question 5

Multiple Choice

The specific and unique property of water that was responsible for the large-scale surface features-dark polygons surrounded by heavily grooved and lighter terrain-on Ganymede's surface is

• A) its reflectivity when still wet compared to when it is fully frozen. Wet ice in the polygons appears darker.
• B) the difference in reflectivities of ice and liquid water. The light ice network surrounds darker pools of liquid water.
• C) the change in color of water ice with temperature, becoming darker in the centers of the colder polygons but lighter at their warmer edges.
• D) the fact that it expands when it freezes. Water squeezed out from beneath old, dark ice expanded to produce the lighter, raised terrain.

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