BOUNDLESS EXPANSE 3D

Triton's Nitrogen Geysers

TRITON · eruptions of frozen air
Triton's Nitrogen Geysers
AI illustration of the real object
HEIGHT about 8 km plumesPOWERED BY weak sunlight through ice

Voyager 2 caught dark plumes rising eight kilometers above Triton's pink ice and bending sideways in the thin wind. The engine is delicate: sunlight passes through clear nitrogen ice, gently warms the dark ground beneath, and pockets of gas blast through like steam from a kettle lid, on a moon where minus 235 degrees counts as a warm day.

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