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Triton’s South Polar Cap

Triton’s South Polar Cap
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Description: Triton’s South Polar Cap
Approximately a dozen high-resolution Voyager 2 images were combined to produce this view of Triton’s southern hemisphere.
The pinkish polar cap is probably made of nitrogen frost. A notable scarcity of craters suggests that Triton’s surface was
either melted or flooded by icy lava after the era of bombardment that characterized the early history of the
solar system
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