will ice stay frozen in space?

Question

hi i was just wondering if an ice would melt in space or will it stay frozen?

Answer 1

Yes, Comets have chunks of ice as part of their tail.

Answer 2

Depends on entirely how far away from the sun the ice is.

Take a comet, its a giant snowball. When its out past neptune and pluto its solid because the ambient temperature of space that far out is close to absolute zero.
However when you get past mars and Earth the temperature goes up.
Spacesuits have to protect against extreme cold and heat (in sunlight). In direct sunshine outside Earths atmosphere it can get as high as 200C.
As the ice gets in close to the sun it will start to melt (the big trails that comets produce are melting ice and only happen near the sun).

Answer 3

It would obviosly freeze because it just so happens to be freezing in space. If a star got close to it,it would melt because, so far as I know, all the stars are hot. Gravity doesn't need to exist in space. An ice cube would just stay together because their is no gravity to apose the molucular bonds holding together the frozen cube.

Answer 4

At some point it will come across a star that will melt it, then it will disperse once it is liquid or gas. So it will melt and never reform into any shape of ice.

Or it may hit the atmosphere of a planet or asteroid and melt in the re-entry.

There may be other ways it will melt, but it won't last forever, basically.

Answer 5

I assume you ask for a small icecube or something.

I'll disagree with many of the mob and say that it would not stay frozen, because of the vacuum of space. A little icecube has nowhere near the gravitational force to hold itself together, so it would get stripped apart from molecule to molecule, and float happily away.

Answer 6

Pluto's neighbouring object, Charon, could be spewing out liquid water from ultra-cold volcanoes, covering Charon's chilly surface with freshly-formed ice crystals.

This dramatic conclusion was made by Jason Cook at Arizona State University, Tempe, who looked at Charon's near-infrared spectrum using telescopes at the Gemini Observatory at Mauna Kea, Hawaii

Answer 7

Depending on how far away from the sun it was, one side of it would stay ice and other other side would melt.

This is the same reasoning which explains why one side of Mercury is freezing and the other side is burning (for lack of a better word). Mercury always keeps the same face to the sun.

This changes, however, if your ice is rotating.

Answer 8

No, a small chunk of ice will slowly sublimate directly into a gaseous form. The ice crystal will have a nonzero temperature, and molecules will slowly break off, although will maintain a sub-freezing temperature.

Answer 9

ice will stay frozen the temp is average 2.725 +/- 0.002 degrees Kelvin it could melt if it gets close to something like a star

Answer 10

Stay frozen