Wednesday, August 17, 2022

 -Sean O'Hara


Cryovolcanos are peculiar. If not for Triton I wonder if people would find the topic so interesting. However... Triton. Among the most active worlds in the solar system, and so far away a return mission isn't forthcoming. 

  • The slides in this LPI are self explanatory, so I don't feel like I need to call attention to some choice timestamps, but at 12:00 the future of planetary science makes an appearance.
There are 5 cryovolcano suspects named.
  1. Ahuna Mons on Ceres at 11:00
  2. At 13:30, Hubble says there might be plumes on Europa, nothing confirmed. 
  3. At 15:40, Enceladus' Tiger Stripes, the most studied Cryovolcano of them all. 
  4. Triton at 17:20. With a mission teaser. 
  5. Pluto’s Wright & Piccard Mons at 19:00. Not confirmed at all, but odd enough to take a hard look at. 
At 28:40 in the Q&A he shows you some of the "anti-freeze" chemistry in videos. Lab-lava in it’s cryogenic form. At 34:00 he models a volcano with chocolate. It’s even better than I’m making it sound.

If interested in more check out Fire & Ice by Natalie Starkey.

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