ejecta

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What Enceladus does is akin to a volcano hurling lava into space -- except the ejecta are plumes of water vapor and ice.

From Science Daily • Nov. 10, 2025

“They are able to show that ejecta from a crater the size of the Giordano Bruno … could survive for a long enough timescale in a co-orbital zone around Earth.”

From Science Magazine • Apr. 19, 2024

"We actually used the equations of volcanoes to predict how fast ejecta would fly - 90 meters per second," he told BBC News.

From BBC • Nov. 18, 2023

“It could have gone really badly. They could have had the vehicle destroyed on the launchpad from ejecta hitting it.”

From Scientific American • May 4, 2023

The desert plains are giving way to bumpier terrain, strewn with ejecta that never got buried by sand.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir