Volcano on Pluto Perplexes Secular Scientists
Something that keeps coming up is how science and technology provide ways of learning and trying to understand the universe, but also knowledge thwarts both deep time and evolution. Stars and planets do not act their age, so to speak; they give signs of being much younger than expected.
Pluto has shown geologic activity, which was a big surprise. Other activity such as volcanoes on the moon Io, one over on Mars, the volcano on Venus, and now one way out yonder on Pluto are bothersome. Volcanoes bring to mind liquid hot magma. Those farther away they blast other stuff.
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An Unusual Crater on Pluto Might be a Supervolcano (Universe Today, 23 Oct 2023). Meet Kiladze, a new supervolcano in the solar system. This one erupts ice, not hot lava. But erupting ice implies water was able to move within Pluto’s interior. How could that be, after the assumed 4.5 billion years it has been orbiting far from the sun in the solar system’s icebox region?
Learn more at "Pluto Volcano Must Be Young."