They remained on the frigid surface for some while, discussing what should be done, spellbound by melancholy.
Other signals were coming back from the tiny human settlement deep under the planet's frigid surface.
Scientists hope the craft will survive on the frigid surface at least 30 minutes to radio data on the chemical composition.
The block of ice seemed to drift closer, and the pits and bumps of its frigid surface magnified.
That was for a car out on Europa's frigid surface, and Camille would gain a little more time than that because the ambient temperature in her ice cave was higher.
Scientists who study the present-day surface of Mars, arid and frigid, have long wondered, where did all the water go?
A rocky body, it had a dull gleam, and was streaked here and there with layers of white and yellow, where veins of frozen gases lay forever upon the frigid surface.
In a little while it would set down on the frigid surface of the last planet.
Burl replaced his glove on his hand and dashed outside to the freedom of the frigid surface of Triton.
Photographs from the Mars Global Surveyor from 2006 showed evidence of recent (i.e. within 10 years) flows of a liquid on Mars's frigid surface.