{"id":28990,"date":"2010-10-11T17:23:59","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T17:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/triton\/"},"modified":"2010-10-11T17:23:59","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T17:23:59","slug":"triton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/triton.php","title":{"rendered":"Triton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Way out in the deep freeze of our solar system lies an unassuming moon quietly circling around Neptune&hellip;<br>&hellip;or so you thought.<\/p><p>Did  you know that this quiet little moon is the largest moon to have a  retrograde orbit (spins opposition to its planet)?&nbsp; And speaking of  large, it&rsquo;s the 7th largest moon in the solar system.&nbsp; AND, children, it  has a nearly perfect circular orbit.<\/p><p>Thought to be a Kuiper Belt capture, Triton acts a lot like Pluto.&nbsp;  Also, it&rsquo;s one of the few moons in the Solar System known to be  geologically active.&nbsp; That&rsquo;s right; volcanos.&nbsp; You won&rsquo;t see many impact  craters looking at Triton.&nbsp; Maybe a few, but you&rsquo;ll probably mistake  most of those with volcanos.<\/p><div><a href=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/ebc61_Voyager_2_Triton_14bg_r90ccw_colorized.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7115 \" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/ebc61_Voyager_2_Triton_14bg_r90ccw_colorized.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"358\" height=\"360\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><p>Voyager 2 evidence of cryovolcanism<\/p><\/div><p>Discovered just 17 days after Neptune itself, William Lassell also  thought he saw a ring system around Neptune, but was pretty much laughed  out of the astronomical community for that.<\/p><p>Ha.&nbsp; Ha.<\/p><p>Triton&rsquo;s retrograde orbit has been the object of study for years.&nbsp; True,  there are smaller moons &ndash; much further than their primary &ndash; which  exhibit retrograde orbits, but none as close or as large as Triton.&nbsp; As I  said, Triton also orbits its primary in a near perfect circle.&nbsp; That&rsquo;s  very uncommon.&nbsp; It is believed that in about 3.6 billion years, Triton  will either impact Neptune&rsquo;s atmosphere or cause a ring system to rival  Saturn.<\/p><p>Triton has a very thin atmosphere of nitrogen, methane, and carbon  monoxide.&nbsp; It may also have liquid water below the surface due to the  tectonic activity&hellip; but it&rsquo;s not considered a candidate for life.<\/p><div><a href=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/b1c35_Neptune-visible.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7116\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/b1c35_Neptune-visible.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"315\" height=\"403\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><p>Voyager 2, of course... Neptune<\/p><\/div><p>Interested?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Way out in the deep freeze of our solar system lies an unassuming moon quietly circling around Neptune&hellip;&hellip;or so you thought.Did you know that this quiet little moon is the largest moon to have a retrograde orbit (spins opposition to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/triton.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28990"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}