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 ...

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 ...

"Triton has a nitrogen atmosphere that freezes into polar caps seasonally," said Dr. Hansen-Koharchek. "The Earth also has a mainly nitrogen atmosphere—can you imagine if our atmosphere froze ...

It has the wrong density, color, and atmosphere to be a primeval moon of Neptune. Both of these are big deals. When we examine the moons of the other gas giants, we can see immediately why Triton ...

Something else very strange about Triton is its ionosphere, a layer of a celestial body’s atmosphere where atoms are ionized by solar and cosmic radiation. “It’s an order of magnitude more ...

Discovered in 1846, Triton is the largest moon of Neptune ... Its retrograde orbit, icy surface, and strange atmosphere make it one of the most fascinating and mysterious moons in our solar ...

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 ...

Let's look at two examples, Mars and Triton. Mars is an excellent candidate for pragmatic terraforming because it already has so many similarities to Earth: a 25-hour day, an atmosphere ...

Because the plumes were seen in Triton's southern hemisphere during its spring, they were assumed to be created as sunlight penetrated a thin layer of nitrogen ice deposited from Triton's tenuous ...