Let it snow

5 places in the Solar System where it snows

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!

by JoAnna Wendel
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As winter approaches, visions of snowy hills, blanketed streets, and icy ponds may start creeping into your dreams.

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There’s nothing quite like that first snowy morning — when Earth feels quieter and more peaceful.

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But Earth isn’t the only place in the solar system with snow.

When NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft sped by Pluto in 2015, it snapped vistas of snow-capped mountains.

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Mars’s south pole is covered in water ice glaciers, but it snows carbon dioxide.

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On Saturn’s moon Enceladus, plumes of water vapor spew into space at its south pole. Some of that vapor condenses and falls back to the surface as snow.

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Incredibly, even the Solar System’s most volcanically active world, Jupiter’s moon Io, gets a snow day. It snows sulfur on Io, created as the gas is spewed into the atmosphere by volcanoes, cools, and then condenses.

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On Saturn’s Moon Titan, huge clouds of methane condense in the atmosphere and fall to the ground as either rain or snow.

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