In the universe everything is in its place: the planets revolve around stars, moons - around the planet.This is a clear and ordered structure of strikes by its diversity and versatility.Some satellites are volcanic, but ... ice volcanoes.Other washed giant ocean.This amazing worlds of solid, unlike many planets.Scientists believe that the vast galaxy of our population may be greater satellites than planets.One of these incredible and little-known objects - Neptune's moon Triton.
satellites tell the unknown story of our universe, they demonstrate its device.In our solar system eight planets.In six of these orbits are satellites - a total of more than three hundred.But only two of them have a significant atmosphere.Apart from Titan, wrapped gaseous envelope also Neptune's moon named Triton.
This is a unique celestial body of this kind in the solar system.The satellites of Neptune, which is only thirteen, are subject to the general laws of celestial mechanics - everything except the Triton, which looks like a foreign body in this slim and clear structure.The fact that he is one of our planetary system rotates in the direction opposite to the movement of the planets.He is highly inclined to the equatorial plane of Neptune's orbit, which is a near-perfect circle.
All this gives a good reason to believe that Triton was once a separate planet formed away from Neptune.Then he somehow found himself captured by the monstrous gravity of the gas giant, turned to his companion.Features of the structure and the unusual orbit of Triton, which has always excited the minds of astrophysics allow for the suggestion that it was formed in the solar system known as the Kuiper Belt.
In our planetary system known to a lot of the captured objects.But they are much less Triton.Thus, it can be argued that a satellite of Neptune Triton is the largest of the discovered celestial bodies in the solar system, caught in the trap of a gravitational giant.Its diameter is about two thousand seven hundred kilometers, which is not much smaller than the diameter of the Moon.
Triton - the "shining" moon of Neptune, as much of its surface is covered with methane and nitrous glaciers.This is the reason a good reflection of sunlight."Voyager", flew past Triton recorded in most parts of its southern hemisphere presence of the polar caps and the existence near the equator formations resembling a frozen lake.
This satellite of Neptune has another unusual feature - too few impact craters, which, of course, may be indicative of violent geological activity Triton.According to many researchers, his age is not more than a hundred million years.A significant part of the Western Hemisphere Triton occupies a unique terrain, anywhere else in the solar system is not found, and reminiscent of melon rind.The nature of the formation of such abnormal landscape is currently unclear.
Triton serious danger from Neptune that his incredibly powerful gravity pulls the satellite closer and closer.As a result, it would be too close to the surface of a giant, so to speak, overcome a secure line.And the monstrous gravitational field strength of Neptune Triton simply break apart.As a result, huge fragments of the satellite will become part of the rings surrounding the planet.
