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Charonia tritonis, common name the Triton's trumpet, the giant triton or pū [1] is a species of very large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Charoniidae, the tritons. [2] Reaching up to two feet (or 60 cm) in shell length this is one of the biggest mollusks in the coral reef.
Charonia is a genus of very large sea snail, commonly known as Triton's trumpet or Triton snail. They are marine gastropod mollusks in the monotypic family Charoniidae . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] They are one of the few natural predators of the crown-of-thorns starfish .
Charonia variegata, the Atlantic triton or Atlantic triton's trumpet, is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Charoniidae, the triton snails, triton shells, or tritons.
Tuonela Planitia was discovered alongside Triton's other surface features by the Voyager 2 spacecraft during its flyby of the Neptune system on 25 August 1989. [3] The name Tuonela Planitia was approved by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in 1991; the name originates from the underworld realm of the dead from Finnish mythology.
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's atmosphere possesses a mean surface pressure of roughly 1.4 Pa, or roughly 1 ⁄ 70,000 that of Earth's sea level pressure. [1] The mean surface pressure varies significantly with respect to Triton's seasons; by 1997, Triton's atmospheric surface pressure had risen to approximately 1.9 +0.18
As Triton's orbit is highly circular, the source of heat needed to maintain its liquid water ocean likely comes from a combination of radiogenic heating and heating from obliquity tidal heating. [13] Assuming Triton's ice shell is entirely conductive, Triton's ocean may be 20–30 km beneath its surface. [12]
This is a list of named geological features on Triton. Catenae (crater chains) Catena Named after Name approved (Date ...