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Nov 9, 2015 · The two cryovolcano candidates are large features measuring tens of miles or kilometers across and several miles or kilometers high. “These are big mountains with a large hole in their summit, and on Earth that generally means one thing — a volcano,” said Oliver White, New Horizons postdoctoral researcher at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California.
May 31, 2024 · Universe Today has had the privilege of spending the last several months venturing into a multitude of scientific disciplines, including impact craters, planetary surfaces, exoplanets ...
Nov 2, 2023 · Pluto as seen from NASA's New Horizons during its July 2015 flyby. (Image credit: NASA/JPL) Demoted planet Pluto may have an ice volcano on its surface the size of Yellowstone, scientists recently ...
Feb 20, 2024 · Feb 20, 2024. Article. 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. Artist’s concept of a collision between two objects in the ...
2 days ago · Caltech researchers have found evidence of a giant planet tracing a bizarre, highly elongated orbit in the outer solar system. The object, which the researchers have nicknamed Planet Nine, has a mass about 10 times that of Earth and orbits about 20 times farther from the sun on average than does Neptune (which orbits the sun at an average ...
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. The discovery points to an internal heat source that, at some point in Pluto's past, drove the melting of interior reservoirs of volatile ices, such ...
Sep 25, 2023 · In this artist’s depiction, a cryovolcano is erupting on Neptune’s moon Triton. Credit: Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library A translation of this article was made possible by a partnership with ...
