Cantaloupe Terrain

The weirdest terrain on Triton is the so-called cantaloupe terrain, characterized by closed depressions 30 to 50 kilometers wide, separated by ridges. It has now been shown that these depressions resemble those formed by diapirs, which are blobs of material that rise from depth and penetrate through a surface layer. This suggests that Triton's crust is layered. Some of the smooth deposits at right may be volcanic in origin. Copy of Tcant.jpg (40490 bytes)

(NASA text and photo)