Sentences with phrase «though ice volcanoes»
The Triton moon orbiting Neptune, for instance, is nearly as large as Earth's moon, though ice volcanoes dispersed throughout the celestial body give off nitrogen frost, giving the moon a smoky appearance.
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All the forces of nature that we used to call «acts of God» have become, at least in part, acts of humankind (excepting volcanoes and earthquakes — though scientists this winter announced that lurching ice had more than doubled the number of earthquakes under Greenland).
The features would be the first large ice volcanoes in the solar system, says Jeff Moore, a New Horizons scientist at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, though the team is not yet willing to say the discovery is definite.