Subsequent analysis of the data suggests that this reading was likely caused by Huygens displacing a large pebble as it landed, and that the surface is better described as a "sand" made of ice grains.

Loose blankets of ice grains were not considered to be regolith because when they appear on Earth in the form of snow they behave differently from regolith, the grains melting and fusing with only small changes in pressure or temperature.

Nitrogen volcanoes jutted from the surface, spewing what looked like pallid ice grains into its atmosphere.

A nebula contains gas, ice grains and dust (including primordial nuclides).

Frost line (astrophysics), a particular distance in the solar nebula from the central protosun where it is cool enough for hydrogen compounds such as water, ammonia, and methane to condense into solid ice grains.

Each layer contains ice grains that are representative of the distinct meteorological conditions during which the snow formed and was deposited.

But if you want ice, you can choose among graphic representations of "ice grains, small, frozen raindrops," "ice granules," "ice needles" and "ice, many signs for assembled."

Rotten ice is a loose term for ice that is melting, disintegrating, or otherwise formed, having water, air, or contaminants between ice grains, causing the ice to be honeycombed.

Because the ice grains in slush are so loosely bonded, it is unstable and can cause an avalanche even on gentle slopes.

First to attack the fallen snowflake is destructive metamorphism, which changes the fragile hexagonal shape into more or less rounded ice grains.