Charon has Geysers too |
Charon has Geysers too |
 Jul 18 2007, 04:08 PM
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The only mechanism that explained the data was cryovolcanism, the eruption of liquids and gases in an ultra-cold environment. This action could be occurring on timescales as short as a few hours or days, and at levels that would recoat Charon to a depth of one millimeter every 100,000 years. ---------- - Charon: An Ice Machine in the Ultimate Deep Freeze -------------------- - blue_scape / Nico -
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Jul 19 2007, 03:06 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 401 Joined: 5-January 07 From: Manchester England Member No.: 1563 |
Apart from heat due to radioactive materials, are there any other potential heat sources that far out? For example (picks an idea out of the air) could there have been a recent impact large enough to have liquified the interior? I know any ideas would be pure speculation, but thats all we'll have until june 2015
 . The ammonia in the (possible) water might allow for heat sources ordinarily to feeble to be considered to have an impact. Would anyone care to speculate?
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Jul 21 2007, 07:24 PM
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QUOTE (marsbug @ Jul 19 2007, 09:06 AM)  ... could there have been a recent impact large enough to have liquified the interior? Probably not... an impact big enough to liquify the interior would probably also have thrown Charon's orbit off-circular. We'd be able to see the ellipticity of its orbit, I think. |
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SigurRosFan Charon has Geysers too Jul 18 2007, 04:08 PM
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