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    A cryovolcano (sometimes informally referred to as an ice volcano) is a type of volcano that erupts gases and volatile material such as liquid water,...
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    its eponymous peak on Titan, the largest moon of Saturn. A putative cryovolcano, it is the largest mountain range on Titan by volume. It was discovered...
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    Patera's cryovolcanic edifice, Leviathan Patera is the largest known cryovolcano on Triton and one of the largest volcanic features in the Solar System...
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    2010, the Cassini mission team announced the most compelling possible cryovolcano yet found. Named Sotra Patera, it is one in a chain of at least three...
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    covers volcanoes on Earth. See § Volcanoes on other celestial bodies and cryovolcano for more information. The word volcano is derived from the name of Vulcano...
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  • ice naturally occurs Cryotron, a switch that uses superconductivity Cryovolcano, a theoretical type of volcano that erupts volatiles instead of molten...
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  • Piccad Mons is a large, roughly circular mountain and likely cryovolcano on the dwarf planet Pluto. Discovered by the New Horizons spacecraft in 2015...
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    Ceres has one prominent mountain, Ahuna Mons; this appears to be a cryovolcano and has few craters, suggesting a maximum age of 240 million years. Its...
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  • in India and Pakistan Sotra, an archipelago in Norway Sotra Facula, a cryovolcano located on Titan SOTRA, the Abidjan transport company Šotra, a Serbian...
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    Ceres displays such evidence of an active geology as salt deposits and cryovolcanos, while Pluto has water-ice mountains drifting in nitrogen-ice glaciers...
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