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20 Unbelievable Facts About Space That Will Blow Your Mind

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Ice volcanoes are also real.

We certainly know about volcanoes, but they’re nothing like ice. We’re used to spewing hot molten lava volcanoes, as we have here on Earth. However, space volcanoes are much different. According to Quarts, space volcanoes erupt water, methane, or ammonia.

It’s very interesting how these three materials freeze instantly after being erupted, turning into a phenomenon called cryovolcanoes, also known as ‘volcanic snow’. Planets such as Pluto, Titan (Saturn’s moon), Europa, and Io (Jupiter’s moon) have ice volcanoes on their surface.

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These volcanoes have very powerful and extremely active, they can erupt frozen vapor at a distance of 250 miles, as captured by NASA vehicles. There’s still not enough information about what could be causing this peculiar phenomenon, but scientists believe it could be the strong gravitational pull.

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