Kiladze, the super child volcano of Pluto

On July 6, 2015, NASA's New Horizons space probe flew over Pluto and we were literally amazed. I'm not exaggerating. Until then, it was believed that Pluto, which had been demoted as a dwarf planet, was a frozen place, full of craters, boring and boring. activity, but the opposite was discovered, which was a diverse world with plains, mountains, a thin atmosphere with mists and some clouds.

The latest discovery reveals an even more active Pluto, since, analyzing the New Horizons data again, a group of American researchers affirm that they have discovered a crater that has a strange appearance and that is not really an impact crater, no. It is a crater resulting from the impact of an asteroid, but it could be a super cryovolcano.

The crater is called Kiladze and forms a structure surrounded by a rim 44 km in diameter by walls 3 km high. It is located in a rugged region called Hayabusa Terra, located to the east of the Sputnik Plain, which forms the lobe. left of the heart of Pluto.

The first clue that caught the attention of the researchers is that the structure lacked a central peak, which is a characteristic element of impact craters, it was also slightly elongated and on the other hand it was detected that there was water ice scattered around the kiladze .

The specialists explained that the existence of water ice is unusual since most of Pluto's surface is covered with methane and nitrogen ice. They also commented that the frozen water was mixed with ammonia; With all these clues the researchers suggested that Kiladze is probably a super small volcano and calculated that it had expelled approximately 912 cubic km of materials, they also calculated that the volcano was active for the last few million years due to the accumulation of water ice that made it. surrounds

A volcano that spews water ice, well yes, cryovolcanism works in a very similar way to terrestrial volcanoes, only instead of molten rock lava what it expels is ice or very cold water, researchers believe that ammonia reduces the freezing point of water which causes water to flow like frozen lava through the supervolcano, it is also believed that ammonia is found on the surface in the form of an ammoniacal chamber.

If the discovery is confirmed this could be the most distant super volcano in the solar system.

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