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- But recent advances in understanding ocean worlds such as Jupiter’s moon Europa and Saturn’s moon Enceladus have raised the possibility that Triton’s plumes may indicate it, too, harbors an ocean under its icy crust — a place where life may have managed to evolve. Triton, Neptune’s largest moon, seems to hang beneath its ice giant parent.
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Could Neptune’s largest moon, Triton, be an ocean world? As both a captured Kuiper Belt object and likely ocean world, Triton is a scientifically rich and compelling target for a New Frontiers mission.
Could Neptune’s odd moon Triton potentially harbour a subsurface ocean and one day be considered a habitable world? Dr. Graziella Caprarelli delves into this fascinating and distant world, in the first of her planetary science exploration series that ventures across our Solar System.
Triton is the largest of Neptune’s 14 known moons. The icy world is likely a Kuiper Belt Object that was captured by Neptune’s gravity. Triton may have a liquid water ocean beneath its surface, but a new mission is needed to investigate further.
Triton is the largest natural satellite of the planet Neptune. It is the only moon of Neptune massive enough to be rounded under its own gravity and hosts a thin but well-structured atmosphere.
Aug 22, 2021 · Neptune’s largest moon Triton is an interesting target for future exploration, PSI Senior Scientist Candice Hansen says in a new paper in The Planetary Science Journal. Triton, explored by just one spacecraft, NASA’s Voyager 2, in 1989, is a candidate to be an ocean world based on its geologically young surface and inferred ongoing ...
Jul 27, 2021 · With its young surface Triton may join the group of moons that likely have transfer of material from their ocean to their surface: Europa, Enceladus, and Titan, and provide the first example of a confirmed ocean world with origins in the Kuiper Belt.
Triton is the largest of Neptune's 13 moons. It is unusual because it is the only large moon in our solar system that orbits in the opposite direction of its planet's rotation―a retrograde orbit. Scientists think Triton is a Kuiper Belt Object captured by Neptune's gravity millions of years ago.
