{"id":211999,"date":"2025-04-21T09:07:47","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T14:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/scientists-find-strange-black-superionic-ice-that-could-exist-inside-other-planets"},"modified":"2025-04-21T09:07:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T14:07:47","slug":"scientists-find-strange-black-superionic-ice-that-could-exist-inside-other-planets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/scientists-find-strange-black-superionic-ice-that-could-exist-inside-other-planets","title":{"rendered":"Scientists find strange black \u2018superionic ice\u2019 that could exist inside other planets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-find-strange-black-superionic-ice-that-could-exist-inside-other-planets.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Everyone knows about ice, liquid and vapor\u2014but, depending on the conditions, water can actually form more than a dozen different structures. Scientists have now added a new phase to the list: superionic ice.<\/p>\n<p>This type of ice forms at extremely high temperatures and pressures, such as those deep inside planets like Neptune and Uranus. Previously, superionic ice had only been glimpsed in a brief instant as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/black-hot-superionic-ice-may-be-natures-most-common-form-of-water-20190508\/\">scientists sent a shockwave<\/a> through a droplet of water, but in a new study published in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41567-021-01351-8\">Nature Physics<\/a>, <\/em>scientists found a way to reliably create, sustain, and examine the ice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a surprise\u2014everyone thought this phase wouldn\u2019t appear until you are at much higher pressures than where we first find it,\u201d said study co-author Vitali Prakapenka, a University of Chicago research professor and beamline scientist at the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory. \u201cBut we were able to very accurately map the properties of this new ice, which constitutes a new phase of matter, thanks to several powerful tools.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone knows about ice, liquid and vapor\u2014but, depending on the conditions, water can actually form more than a dozen different structures. Scientists have now added a new phase to the list: superionic ice. This type of ice forms at extremely high temperatures and pressures, such as those deep inside planets like Neptune and Uranus. Previously, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}