- as cryolava; it
originates from a
reservoir of
subsurface cryomagma.
Cryovolcanic eruptions can take many forms, such as
fissure and
curtain eruptions...
- is
geologically young, with very few
impact craters. Young,
intricate cryovolcanic and
tectonic terrains suggest a
complex geological history. The atmosphere...
- to the
better known Cererian bright spots, and
likely resulted from
cryovolcanic activity from Ceres's interior. It is
named after the
traditional post-harvest...
-
explained above.
There is yet
another possible mechanism for
ascent of
cryovolcanic melts. If a
fracture with
water in it
reaches an
ocean or subsurface...
-
Leviathan Patera is a
major cryovolcanic caldera on Neptune's
largest moon Triton.
Discovered by the
Voyager 2
spacecraft in 1989,
Leviathan Patera is...
-
roughly every fifty million years. This
makes Ceres the
closest known cryovolcanically active body to the Sun.
Ceres has an
extremely tenuous and transient...
-
heights observed. The
cryovolcanic and
subglacial models propose internal heat
drives the eruptions. If the
plumes are
cryovolcanic in origin, it is possible...
- methane, nitrogen, and
related gases which may have been
released by
cryovolcanic eruptions on the moon, or may have been
transferred over 19,000 km (12...
- surface–atmosphere
interactions as well as impact, tectonic,
possible cryovolcanic, and m****-wasting processes." In
Western parts of
Sputnik Planitia there...
- ice
crust of
Europa are
presumed both to
emerge from the
interior as
cryovolcanic events that
resurface the body, and to ac****ulate from
space as interplanetary...
