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Apr 12, 2022 · A cryovolcanic origin of Wright and Piccard Montes and the surrounding terrain requires multiple episodes of eruption from several sites that collectively extruded >10,000 cubic kilometers of material, a type and scale of cryovolcanism not seen elsewhere in the solar system.
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.
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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Up to two will be selected by summer 2021 to become a full-fledged mission and will launch later in the decade. Investigating how Triton has changed over time would give scientists a better understanding of how solar system bodies evolve and work.
Feb 7, 2024 · NASA released explosive new views of the solar system’s most volcanically active world this week, exciting astronomers and prompting discoveries. Among other standout features, the images show a...
It could not have been taken from Earth because Neptune never shows a crescent phase to sunward Earth. The unusual vantage point also robs Neptune of its familiar blue hue, as sunlight seen from here is scattered forward, and so is reddened like the setting Sun.
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.
