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,...
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Patera's cryovolcanic edifice, Leviathan Patera is the largest known cryovolcano on Triton and one of the largest volcanic features in the Solar System...
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its eponymous peak on Titan, the largest moon of Saturn. A putative cryovolcano, it is the largest mountain range on Titan by volume. It was discovered...
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covers volcanoes on Earth. See § Volcanoes on other celestial bodies and cryovolcano for more information. The word volcano is derived from the name of Vulcano...
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ice naturally occurs Cryotron, a switch that uses superconductivity Cryovolcano, a theoretical type of volcano that erupts volatiles instead of molten...
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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...
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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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2010, the Cassini mission team announced the most compelling possible cryovolcano yet found. Named Sotra Patera, it is one in a chain of at least three...
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accumulation of gas hydrates under the seafloor that resembles a pingo Cryovolcano – Type of volcano that erupts volatiles such as water, ammonia or methane...
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satellites, ground reports, pilot reports and meteorological models. Cryovolcano Enceladus – a volcanically active moon of planet Saturn Mount Pelée Pele...
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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...
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Wright 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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contains a pattern of light and dark regions, flow channels and possibly cryovolcanos. Some dark regions are covered by longitudinal dune fields shaped by...
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Crystals inside magma can determine how bubbles grow and nucleate. Cryovolcano Ice Hui, Man-To; Farnocchia, Davide; Micheli, Marco (2019). "C/2010 U3...
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compounds. Cassini–Huygens also found evidence of a methane-spewing cryovolcano on the Saturnian moon Titan, which is believed to be a significant source...
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Roughly circular protrusion from slowly extruded viscous volcanic lava Cryovolcano – Type of volcano that erupts volatiles such as water, ammonia or methane...
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central depression, Wright Mons. It has been identified as a possible cryovolcano. The informal name Sputnik Planum was first announced by the New Horizons...
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cryopreservation, cryoprotectant, cryosphere, cryosurgery, cryotherapy, cryovolcano -cry wail, shriek Latin critare, from quiritare cry, decry, descry crypt-...
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in India and Pakistan Sotra, an archipelago in Norway Sotra Facula, a cryovolcano located on Titan SOTRA, the Abidjan transport company Šotra, a Serbian...
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in a nonsynchronised rotator is given by a more complex expression. Cryovolcano Tidal acceleration Tidal locking Io Volcano Observer Planetary differentiation...
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which are created by explosive subterranean eruptions. The likeliest cryovolcano features is a complex of landforms that includes two mountains, Doom...
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Scientific Reports that claimed that the Yamal crater was the first cryovolcano discovered on Earth. Subsequently, however, in the course of scientific...
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may be cryovolcanoes, including Wright Mons and nearby Piccard Mons. Cryovolcano Category:Extraterrestrial mountains Areography Lists of volcanoes "Io:...
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atmospheric dispersion modeling Outline of air pollution dispersion Cryovolcano Enceladus – moon of planet Saturn Eruption column, a plume of volcanic...
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(NASA) Italy (ASI) Cassini–Huygens January–February 2005 First confirmed cryovolcano (Enceladus). ESA USA (NASA) Italy (ASI) Cassini–Huygens 4 July 2005 First...
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Nepal/Tibet Ahuna Mons on Ceres, imaged by Dawn from LAMO Pluto's possible cryovolcano Wright Mons, showing its central depression New Horizons view of Pluto's...
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proposed that Ahuna Mons formed as a cryovolcanic dome. It is the closest cryovolcano to the Sun yet discovered. It is roughly antipodal to the largest impact...
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and has lobate flow features to its north and east. It is probably a cryovolcano. Erebor Mons is situated about 470 km to the north-northeast of a larger...
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Mons formed; however, there is speculation that Kubrick Mons may be a cryovolcano and the depression may be the result of a shrinking chamber of water...
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cryopreservation, cryoprotectant, cryosphere, cryosurgery, cryotherapy, cryovolcano -cry wail, shriek Latin critare, from quiritare cry, decry, descry crypt-...
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