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  • Cryovolcanoes on Neptune: What We Know About Icy Volcanoes
    There's a bit of a misunderstanding here. Neptune doesn't have ice volcanoes in the traditional sense. What we see on Neptune are cryovolcanoes.

    Here's the breakdown:

    * Cryovolcanoes erupt ices instead of molten rock like traditional volcanoes. These ices can be water, ammonia, or methane.

    * Neptune does have cryovolcanoes, but their size is not well-defined.

    * The most famous cryovolcano on Neptune is Triton, a moon of Neptune.

    * Triton's cryovolcanoes are massive, with some reaching heights of several kilometers.

    So, while we don't have specific sizes for the cryovolcanoes on Neptune itself, we know that they are large-scale geological features similar to those found on its moon Triton.

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