Cosmic Queries – Volcanoes & Life in the Universe
StarTalk Radio
00:00
The Physics of Cryovokanism
Underneath an icy crust you've got a rocky core in the middle which is warm and then this kind of salty liquid ocean. It's from there that you're pushing material out. So for a volcanism generally it's happening in places that are icy because we're talking about cryoping the ice part, right? Yeah. And when it comes to cryovokanism, doesn't there have to be a mantle below this? There has to be so in other words for that liquid to be able to not freeze so that even though you're on a super cold atmosphere. I'd like that analogy because it's you're analogizing basically the physics of what it's doing rather than the
Transcript
Play full episode
