Ice volcano erupting on Charon,artwork. Charon is the largest moon of the dwarf planet Pluto (red,centre right). Pluto and Charon are icy bodies that orbit within the Kuiper Belt on the edge of the Solar System,some 6 billion kilometres from the Sun (top right). Pluto is around 2300 kilometres across,and Charon about half that size. Ice volcanoes (also known as ice geysers),are found on icy bodies in the outer Solar System. They are eruptions of liquid and gas caused by the heating and melting of ices of nitrogen and methane | |
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