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five-mile-tall, geyser-like plume of dark material has been discovered erupting from the surface of Neptune's moon Triton in one of the images returned last month to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft.
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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...
Apr 29, 2024 · Kirk and Lopes note that there is evidence of past cryovolcanism on Triton, the largest of Neptune’s 13 moons. NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft helped scientists observe that Triton’s surface is composed of smooth plains , mounds, and rock pits.
Oct 22, 2024 · Researchers think it could be a cryovolcano, a temperamental geologic feature that wields liquid water instead of molten lava.
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...
- Erik Klemetti
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 · 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.
