What Is 13,000 Feet Tall, Millions of Years Old, and Spews Out Ice?
Scientists are searching for a mysterious kind of volcano on the dwarf planet Ceres.
Ice volcanoes sound like something out of a Syfy-channel movie, perhaps produced by the same people behind the Sharknado franchise: a muddy mix of ice, rock, and salts erupting through cracks in the terrain and scattering out onto the landscape, freezing everything in its path. But they are in fact a natural phenomenon that scientists believe occurs across our solar system and beyond.
For several years now, scientists have been puzzling over one such volcano on
