These smooth areas are the result of plumes of dust and nitrogen gas that erupt out of the moon's crust, and then get gently blown around by Triton's tenuous atmosphere. It's not clear ...

Neptune's largest moon, Triton, is one of the most biologically interesting places in the solar system. Despite being hard to reach, it appears to have active volcanoes, a thin atmosphere ...

Researchers have shared a radical new idea for how to put a spacecraft in orbit around Neptune: Use the thin atmosphere of Triton, Neptune's largest moon, to capture it. The only spacecraft to ...

The “volcanic plains” of Triton. “Triton has a nitrogen atmosphere that freezes into polar caps seasonally,” said Hansen-Koharchek. “The Earth also has a main nitrogen atmosphere — can ...

Moreover, the planet is constantly bombarded by solar winds, yet it is still able to retain a measurable (albeit, thin) atmosphere. But what about the moons? When there is a measurable difference ...

The Voyager 2 encounter revealed, through a slight distortion of the spacecraft's radio link to Earth, that Triton too has a tenuous atmosphere, with a surface pressure of perhaps 10 to 20 ...