The New Horizons spacecraft has captured an image of a giant iceberg on the tiny planet Pluto. Matching photos and videos are currently being liked on Twitter.
New shot. It has long been known that there is an iceberg on Pluto. Special magazine reported back in May Natural Connection The iceberg is seven kilometers high and 150 kilometers wide. Therefore, this is a special form of volcanism in which sticky water ice must have erupted from inside Pluto in the past.
Ice volcano on Pluto: icy material ejected instead of lava
Scientist We assume that ice volcanoes are cosmologically young. According to its discoverers, an age of several 100 million years is realistic. Pluto is about 4.5 billion years old.
As research and knowledge on the portal writes about this, so-called icy volcanoes, where icy material is ejected instead of hot molten rock, also occur on the various moons of Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune. However, the dome-shaped structure and size of the ice volcano is by far unique in outer space.
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