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Loading contentVolcanoes, lava plains, and the ice volcanoes of the outer worlds.
A steep, isolated mountain on Ceres interpreted as a cryovolcano — a dome built by icy, briny material erupting from within the dwarf planet.
The vast lava-filled 'Sea of Showers', one of the largest lunar maria, occupying a giant ancient impact basin on the Moon's near side.
A chain of three vast shield volcanoes on the Tharsis rise, a bulge so large it may have tilted the whole planet. Tharsis dominates the western hemisphere of Mars.
Four parallel fractures across the south pole of Enceladus from which giant plumes of water vapour and ice erupt into space — fed by the moon's subsurface ocean.