- A
cryovolcano (sometimes
informally referred to as an ice volcano) is a type of
volcano that
erupts gases and
volatile material such as
liquid water,...
- 2010, the C****ini
mission team
announced the most
compelling possible cryovolcano yet found.
Named Sotra Patera, it is one in a
chain of at
least three...
- Patera's
cryovolcanic edifice,
Leviathan Patera is the
largest known cryovolcano on
Triton and one of the
largest volcanic features in the
Solar System...
- its
eponymous peak on Titan, the
largest moon of Saturn. A ****tive
cryovolcano, it is the
largest mountain range on
Titan by volume. It was discovered...
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Ceres has one
prominent mountain,
Ahuna Mons; this
appears to be a
cryovolcano and has few craters,
suggesting a
maximum age of 240 million years. Its...
- ice
naturally occurs Cryotron, a
switch that uses
superconductivity Cryovolcano, a
theoretical type of
volcano that
erupts volatiles instead of molten...
-
Piccard Mons is a large,
roughly circular mountain and
likely cryovolcano on the
dwarf planet Pluto.
Discovered by the New
Horizons spacecraft in 2015...
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Ceres displays such
evidence of an
active geology as salt
deposits and
cryovolcanos,
while Pluto has water-ice
mountains drifting in nitrogen-ice glaciers...
-
covers volcanoes on Earth. See § Volcanoes on
other celestial bodies and
cryovolcano for more information. The word
volcano (UK: /vɒlˈkeɪnəʊ/; and US /vɔlˈkeɪnoʊ/)...
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contains a
pattern of
light and dark regions, flow
channels and
possibly cryovolcanos. Some dark
regions are
covered by
longitudinal dune
fields shaped by...
