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Half-full view of Ceres from the Dawn spacecraft highlighting the crater Occitor

Radioactivity powers volcanoes of salty ice on Ceres

The cryovolcanoes aren't nuclear, but their heat comes from radioactive decay.
By Phil Plait | 
5 months ago
Actual images of Pluto and its large moon Charon, shown to scale and with correct contrast, from New Horizon observations. Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI

Pluto may have once had huge cryovolcanic ice flows

Ice volcanoes on Pluto may have created weird, lumpy landscape.
By Phil Plait | 
10 months ago
Philip Plait Bad Astronomy cassini dione approach

Is Saturn’s moon Dione still cryovolcanically active?

By Phil Plait | 
1 year ago
Ahuna Mons

Ahuna Mons: A muddy, icy volcano on Ceres

By Phil Plait | 
3 years ago
Occator crater, a 92-kilometer-wide impact feature on Ceres, is covered in mineral deposits dredged up from the interior. Cerealia Facula is arrowed (left) as well as Vinalia Faculae (right). Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA/PSI / Phil Plait

Dawn is now barnstorming Ceres and seeing wonders

By Phil Plait | 
4 years ago
dawn_occator.jpg

Does Ceres still have currently active (erupting!) cryovolcanoes?

By Phil Plait | 
5 years ago

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