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It’s tough to create this odd ice, and earlier, researchers had managed to observe it for just a few billionths of a second. In the new experiment, they managed to observe it for a millionth of a second before it disintegrated. In the experiment, the researchers heated the water to over 11,000 degrees Fahrenheit. Since they did so under the same types of high pressure that exist inside dense planets, the study produced superionic ice instead of a puff of steam.