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Triton (/ ˈ t r aɪ t ɒ n /; Ancient Greek: Τρίτων, romanized: Trítōn) is a Greek god of the sea, the son of Poseidon and Amphitrite. Triton lived with his parents in a golden palace on the bottom of the sea. Later he is often depicted as having a conch shell he would blow like a trumpet. [citation needed]
Triton is the largest natural satellite of the planet Neptune. It is the only moon of Neptune massive enough to be rounded under its own gravity and hosts a thin, hazy atmosphere. Triton orbits Neptune in a retrograde orbit—revolving in the opposite direction to the parent planet's rotation—the only large moon in the Solar System to do so.
As a result, Triton's surface geology is largely driven by the dynamics of water ice and other volatiles such as nitrogen and methane. Triton's geology is vigorous, and has been and continues to be influenced by its unusual history of capture, high internal heat, and its thin but significant atmosphere.
The mechanism of Triton's capture has been the subject of several theories over the years. One of them postulates that Triton was captured in a three-body encounter. In this scenario, Triton is the surviving member of a binary Kuiper belt object [note 3] disrupted by its encounter with Neptune. [36]
In this scenario, Triton directly interacts with surrounding gas and dust around Neptune, inducing drag that bleeds energy from Triton's orbit. A close encounter with Neptune, where Triton's relative velocity is larger due to gravitational acceleration, is capable of directly capturing Triton from Solar orbit in a single pass.
This is a list of named geological features on Triton. Catenae (crater chains) Catena Named after Name approved (Date ...
Triton's southern polar cap and dark plume streaks. The climate of Triton encompasses the atmospheric dynamics, weather, and long-term atmospheric trends of Neptune's moon Triton. The atmosphere of Triton is rather thin, with a surface pressure of only 1.4 Pa (1.38 × 10 −5 atm) at the time of Voyager 2 ' s flyby, [1]: 873 but heavily ...
Triton commonly refers to: Triton (mythology), a Greek god; Triton (moon), a satellite of Neptune; Triton may also refer to: Biology. Triton cockatoo, a parrot;