Ice Volcanoes Have Likely Been Erupting For Billions Of Years On Ceres

John Timmer, Ars Technica
Tue, 09/18/2018 - 6:55am

Enlarge / Ahuna Mons, a likely cryovolcano. (credit: Dawn Mission, NASA, JPL-Caltech, UCLA, MPS/DLR/IDA) All of the bodies in our Solar System started out hot, with energy built up by their gravitational collapse and subsequent bombardment. Radioactivity then contributed further heating. For a planet like Earth, that has kept the interior hot enough to sustain plate tectonics.

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