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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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Nov 9, 2015 · NATIONAL HARBOR, MARYLAND— Researchers on NASA's New Horizons mission have discovered evidence on Pluto for what appears to be two cryovolcanoes—volcanoes built out of frozen ice that once oozed molten ice from the inside of the dwarf planet.
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,...
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.
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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 23, 2023 · Cryovolcanism is the process that sends ice "lava" to the surface of Pluto. We've seen it across the outer solar system, in some of the moons of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
Nov 9, 2015 · Two icy volcanoes may lurk near Pluto’s south pole, images from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft suggest. They resemble icy volcanoes, known as cryovolcanoes, on Neptune’s moon Triton and other...
