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Triton's Volcanic Plumes. These three sequential images of an erupting volcano on Neptune's large moon Triton were taken by NASA's Voyager 2 as the spacecraft approach the moon on Aug. 26, 1989.
Apr 29, 2024 · Dr. Rosaly Lopes, a senior research scientist at NASA ’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, U.S.A., says cryovolcanoes, or ice volcanoes, are found on Enceladus, a moon of Saturn. Lopes and other scientists hypothesize that cryovolcanoes also exist on Triton, a moon of Neptune, and Titan, another moon of Saturn.
Oct 24, 2023 · Cryovolcanism, a phenomenon that involves the eruption of ice “lava” onto the surface of celestial bodies, has previously been witnessed on the moons of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. In...
Sep 25, 2023 · by Erik Klemetti 25 September 2023. Ocean worlds throughout our solar system may be home to a phenomenon known as cryovolcanism, in which volcanoes erupt, ejecting volatiles such as ammonia. In...
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May 31, 2024 · Additional worlds in our solar system that also exhibit past or current evidence of cryovolcanism include the dwarf planet, Ceres; Neptune's moon, Triton; the dwarf planet, Pluto and its moon...
Neptune's moon Triton was the first object where active plumes were observed by Voyager 2 in 1989, interpreted as possibly cryovolcanic. Galileo observations showed evidence of cryovolcanism on Europa and Ganymede and later observations by HST have detected possible water vapor plumes from Europa.
Aug 21, 2014 · NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft gave humanity its first close-up look at Neptune and its moon Triton in the summer of 1989. Like an old film, Voyager's historic footage of Triton has been "restored" and used to construct the best-ever global color map of that strange moon.
