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Cryovolcano — Ganesa Macula, a dark feature on Saturn s moon Titan, might be a cryovolcanic dome A cryovolcano (colloquially known as an ice volcano) is a volcano that erupts volatiles such as water, ammonia or methane, instead of molten rock … Wikipedia
Triton (moon) — Triton Voyager 2 photomosaic of Triton s sub Neptunian hemisphere. The bright, slightly pinkish, south polar cap at bottom is composed of nitrogen and methane ice and is streaked by dust deposits left by nitrogen gas geysers. The mostly darker… … Wikipedia
Titan (moon) — Titan Titan in 2005 by Cassini spacecraft Discovery Discovered by Christiaan Huygens … Wikipedia
90482 Orcus — Discovery[1] Discovered by M. Brown, C. Trujillo, D … Wikipedia
Moons of Saturn — Artist s concepts of the Saturnian ring–moon system Saturn, its rings and major icy moons from Mimas to Rhea … Wikipedia
Tiger Stripes (Enceladus) — Cassini view of Enceladus s south pole. The tiger stripes, from lower left to upper right, are the Damascus, Baghdad, Cairo, Alexandria and Camphor sulci. For other uses, see Tiger stripes. The tiger stripes of Enceladus consist of four sub… … Wikipedia
Volcano — This article is about the geological feature. For other uses, see Volcano (disambiguation) … Wikipedia
Charon (moon) — Not to be confused with the smaller outer solar system centaur 2060 Chiron. Charon Charon s Pluto facing hemisphere (determined from brightness variations during Pluto–Charon occultations), rendered by Celestia. Based on mapping work done by Marc … Wikipedia
Enceladus (moon) — Infobox Planet name = Enceladus alt names = Saturn II adjectives = Enceladean caption = Degraded craters, fractures and disrupted terrain in Cassini mosaic of the north polar region of Enceladus bgcolour = #a0ffa0 discovery = yes discoverer =… … Wikipedia
Carbon dioxide clathrate — Carbon dioxide hydrate is a Type I gas clathrate (Sloan 1998). However, there has been some experimental evidence for the development of a metastable Type II phase at temperature near the ice melting point (Fleyfel and Devlin 1990, Staykova et al … Wikipedia
