The Quiz: Neptune’s largest moon, Triton, is known for experiencing what?
Auroras
Fire tornadoes
Rainbows
Ice volcanoes
Triton is Neptune’s largest moon and one of the coldest objects in our solar system. When NASA’s Voyager 2 passed by the planet, it recorded a surface temperature of -391 degrees Fahrenheit. It is one of the few geologically active moons in our solar system, but because of its cold temperatures and nitrogen-rich atmosphere, its volcanoes are much different than the ones found on Earth. This phenomenon is called cryovolcanic activity, and it happens when frozen nitrogen erupts from Triton’s geysers, resulting in so-called “ice volcanoes.”
The correct answer to this quiz is Ice volcanoes.