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Ice Geyser on Triton
... nown Solar System at -240 Celsius (-400 Fahrenheit), it is still volcanically
active. However, the volcanoes are cryonic – geysers of frigid nitrogen gas. The Voyager images showed,
as does my own rendition here, how the geysers leave
dirty streaks ...
Keywords:
planet, gas giant, Neptune, Triton, landscape, geyser, satellite, ice giant, rin...
Plumes of Enceladus
Enceladus is a mid-sized satellite of Saturn, about 500 km across, known since 1789.
In 2005, the Cassini spacecraft discovered that this relatively small world is,
surprisingly, geologically active. Geyser-like jets
of water were seen spewing from t...
Keywords:
Enceladus, Saturn, geyser, volcanism, planet, gas
giant, satellite...
Ice Geysers on Triton
This is a computer animation of cryovolcanism of Triton, the largest moon of Neptune.
These icy geysers were observed by the Voyager 2
spacecraft - or rather, the spacecraft photographed the long stains that these
features left on the landscape. It i...
Keywords:
planet, gas giant, Neptune, Triton, landscape, geyser, satellite, ice giant...
Space Animation Showreel
This short video offers a brief glimpse at around 15 of my astronomy animations, most
of which can be found in their entirety elsewhere on my YouTube channel....
Keywords:
... , collision, black hole, Titan, Triton, geyser
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