-
nature of
direct observations means that the true
number of
extant cryovolcanoes is contentious. Like
volcanism on the
terrestrial planets, cryovolcanism...
-
still flow
through the
outer mantle and
reach the surface,
allowing cryovolcanoes such as
Ahuna Mons to form
roughly every fifty million years. This makes...
- smooth, with few
impact craters,
although mountains and
several possible cryovolcanoes have been found. The
atmosphere of
Titan is
mainly nitrogen and methane;...
-
surface of
Charon that
suggested the
presence of
active cryogeysers and
cryovolcanoes. The fact that the ice was
still in
crystalline form
suggested it may...
- are
structures often not ****ociated with
known magmatic activity; and
cryovolcanoes (or ice volcanoes),
particularly on some
moons of Jupiter, Saturn, and...
-
indicate that Saturn's moon
Titan probably has
volcanoes that
eject water (
cryovolcanoes). Triton, a moon of the
planet Neptune, has
cryovolcanic geysers that...
- C****ini
discovered water-rich
plumes venting from the
south polar region.
Cryovolcanoes near the
south pole
shoot geyser-like jets of
water vapor, molecular...
-
lower atmosphere,
while methane raises the
temperature at the surface.
Cryovolcanoes erupt methane into the atmosphere,
which then
rains down onto the surface...
- is
mostly rocky. Such
planets can have
internal sal****er
oceans and
cryovolcanoes erupting liquid water (i.e. an
internal hydrosphere, like
Europa or...
- ; Ruesch, Ottaviano; Russell,
Christopher T. (2017). "The
vanishing cryovolcanoes of Ceres" (PDF).
Geophysical Research Letters. 44 (3): 1243–1250. Bibcode:2017GeoRL...
