Geomorphic Tests of the Geyser and Dust Devil Models for Triton's Plumes

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Mar 1996

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996lpi....27..871m&link_type=abstract

Lunar and Planetary Science, volume 27, page 871

Physics

Dust Devils, Geyser, Plumes, Triton

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The Voyager Neptune Encounter in 1989 revealed plumes rising over Triton's southern hemisphere with diameters that range between tens of meters and 1.5 km to an altitude of 8 km whereupon their plumes are blown at least 100 km to the west. The plumes, in conjunction with dark surface streaks, have been explained as either nitrogen geysers developed by a solid-state greenhouse mechanism in the polar nitrogen ice or as dust devil thermal vortices forming over and entraining material from darker surface patches. This examination explored both models from a geomorphic perspective to identify and test relevant predictions of each mechanism that should be visible in available imagery.

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