Fumarole

A fumarole is an opening in a planet's crust that allows gases and dissolved minerals from deep below the surface to eject into the surroundings or deposit around the sides of the openings.^[1] Fumaroles can be found in various places on terrestrial planets and moons. Fumaroles can be detected from orbit using a Detailed Surface Scanner to identify geologically-active areas where they are likely to occur.

The Codex has two categories: fumarole and ice fumarole. The Regular fumaroles tend to be large and round.

Types[]

There are 3 types of fumaroles:

Sulphur Dioxide Fumaroles
Water Fumaroles
Silicate Vapour Fumaroles

Locations[]

These are some discovered fumaroles.^[2] Also check this related thread on the Elite Dangerous forums.

System	Planet	Coordinates	Notes
Blaa Hypa ZZ-P d5-145	B 1	Lat: -2.27° / Long: -10.18°
Boelts RL-E c28-2554	D 1	Lat: -9.29° / Long: 148.69°
Chaea Thua XE-R D4-18	1 C	Lat: -51.17° / Long: -45.58°
Col 173 Sector KY-Q D5-47 15	F A	Lat: -61.00° / Long: -99.42°
Col 173 Sector KY-Q D5-47 15	F A	Lat: -61.00° / Long: -99.42°
Synuefe XR-H D11-102	1 B A	Lat: 7.6° / Long: 65.1°
HIP 20485	A 1	Lat: -1.0060° / Long: -117.4010°	Source.^[3]
Scheau Flyi KR-W e1-6736	A 1 A	Lat: -29.35° / Long: 37.11°	Source.^[4]
Smojue LH-D d12-3	9 B	Lat: 0.46° / Long: 144.04°	Source.^[4]
HIP 17401	A 3 A A	Lat: 25.6° / Long: 90.3°	Source.^[4]
Pleione	3 A	Lat: 11.6° / Long: -32.1°	Source.^[4]
Eta Cassiopeiae	New Moon	Lat: -21.35° / Long: -72.60°	Source.^[4]
IC 4604 Sector BA-A D57	1 A	Lat: 48.24° / Long: 85.72°	Source.^[4]
Gbekree	AB 3 B A	Lat: -22.79° / Long: -99.07°
Electra	1	Lat: -23.9855° / Long: -26.8011°
Sifou MP-H c10-4	1 E A	Lat: -29.0317 ° / Long: -93.6991 °	Video Tour
Praea Euq KB-W c15-26	A 9	Lat: 17.0415° / Long: 129.3963°	Video Tour

Notes[]

Prior to Elite Dangerous: Odyssey, the Detailed Surface Scanner identified specific sites with fumaroles and other geological phenomena as "Geological Sites", which would be clearly marked and numbered for ease of navigation.
Prior to Elite Dangerous: Beyond Chapter 4, explorers would document the planetary body, latitude, and longitude of geyser locations for later reference. Manual discovery of these locations could take many hours or even days. Chapter 4's improvements to discovery tools enabled automatic logging of these locations in the Codex for easy reference. An unfortunate side effect of that update is that some classic geological locations were erased or heavily modified.

Videos[]

Geysers, Fumaroles and the sights along the Road to the Northeast.

Elite Dangerous Beta 3.3 - World of death - SPOIHAAE XE-X D2-9

Gallery[]

References[]

[1] ttps://canonn.science/codex/fumeroles-geysers-and-volcanism/

[2] Geyser and Fumarole Location Catalog and Data Collection

[3] ttps://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/89wcvp/undocumented_fumarole_field_on_hip_20485_a_1/

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Geology	Canyons Craters Fumarole Ice Fumarole Gas Vent Geyser Ice Geyser Lava Spout Mountains
Biological sites	Aleoida^O Amphora Plant Anemone Bacterium^O Bark Mound Brain Tree Cactoida^O Clypeus^O Concha^O Crystalline Shard Electricae^O Fonticulua^O Frutexa^O Fumerola^O Fungoida^O Osseus^O Recepta^O Sinuous Tuber Stratum^O Tubus^O Tussock^O
Xenological sites	Ancient Ruins Guardian Structure Crashed Thargoid Ship Nonhuman Signature^O Thargoid Barnacle Thargoid Barnacle Barb Thargoid Barnacle Matrix Thargoid Surface Site Thargoid Spire^O
Objects and Structures	Active Power Source^O Artificial Structure^O Automated Mining Extractor Cargo Canister Cargo Rack Conflict Zone^O Crash Site^O Data Point Distress Beacon^O Impact Site^O Irregular Markers^O Minor Wreckage^O Occupied Escape Pod Materials Salvage Settlement Shipwreck Surface Excavation^O Surface Port
Points of Interest marked with ^O are only available if Odyssey is installed.