Mar 17, 2021
What Would Volcanoes Look Like on Metallic Planets?
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“Cryovolcanism is volcanic activity on icy worlds, and we’ve seen it happen on Saturn’s moon Enceladus,” says Arianna Soldati, assistant professor of marine, earth,and atmospheric sciences at North Carolina State University and lead author of a paper describing the work. “But ferrovolcanism, volcanic activity on metallic worlds, hasn’t been observed yet.”