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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...
Nov 9, 2015 · Using New Horizons images of Pluto’s surface to make 3-D topographic maps, scientists discovered that two of Pluto’s mountains, informally named Wright Mons and Piccard Mons, could be ice volcanoes. The color depicts changes in elevation, blue indicating lower terrain and brown showing higher elevation. Green terrains are at intermediate heights.
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
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.
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.
- Carolyn Collins Petersen
Oct 22, 2024 · Researchers think it could be a cryovolcano, a temperamental geologic feature that wields liquid water instead of molten lava.
Feb 20, 2024 · New observations from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft hint that the Kuiper Belt – the vast, distant outer zone of our solar system populated by hundreds of thousands of icy, rocky planetary building blocks – might stretch much farther out than we thought.
