A survey of Neptune’s inner moons with the James Webb Space Telescope has returned something nobody predicted: clay minerals that can only form in liquid water, on bodies that have never had surface water and sit at minus 223 degrees Celsius. The discovery provides the first direct chemical evidence that today’s tiny moons are fragments of a larger, warmer world — one destroyed when Neptune captured the rogue moon Triton billions of years ago. T…
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