Fire and Ice

We tend to think of Earth volcanoes as erupting hot, molten lava. However, it isn't necessarily the same across the rest of the Solar System. For a start, some volcanoes aren't even particularly hot. Those on Pluto, for example, erupt an icy slush of substances that freeze to form ice mountains. While others erupt the hottest lavas in the Solar System onto a surface covered in a frosty coating of sulphur.

Fire and Ice is an exploration of the Solar System's volcanoes, from the highest peaks of Mars to the intensely inhospitable surface of Venus and the red-hot summits of Io, to the coldest, seemingly dormant icy carapaces of Enceladus and Europa, an unusual look at how these cosmic features are made, and whether such active planetary systems might host life.