Ice Volcanoes Across the Solar System Distort Surfaces with Boiling and Freezing Water

Ice Volcanoes Across the Solar System Distort Surfaces with Boiling and Freezing Water

Learn about cryovolcanism, which shapes the surface of icy moons in the outer Solar System by releasing water that simultaneously boils and freezes.

Simulating The Solar System’s Ice Volcanoes In The Lab - Astrobiology

Scientists have been able to recreate the extreme conditions found on icy moons in deep space – and revealed the unstable behaviour of water. In the near-zero pressure environment of space, water reacts very differently from how it does on Earth. It simultaneously undergoes both boiling and freezing. The icy moons are covered in an […] The post Simulating The Solar System’s Ice Volcanoes In The Lab appeared first on Astrobiology.