Alright, so my bro (jackelope) and I were looking at some of the Casinni Huygens stuff and they started talking about the Cryovolcano that they might have found and I, being the scientific infant that I am, need someone to spoon feed an explanation to me. So how does a cryovolcano work exactly? Or how does it work in theory?
I realize that it exists in a different atmosphere and that temperatures and such are much different, but I still can’t grasp what mechanic would drive a mountain to spit ice instead of lava…
So Straight Dope, please hear my cry!