In A Nutshell Mars was erupting while T. rex roamed Earth: A Martian volcano system was active between 64 and 50 million ...

Olympus Mons, a shield volcano on Mars, is the largest volcano in the solar system, measuring approximately 370 miles in diameter and 26 kilometers in height. The formation of Olympus Mons and three ...

A NASA orbiter has captured a stunning image of a giant volcano on Mars. The panorama, captured on May 2 by NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiter, shows Arsia Mons, one of the largest volcanos on the Red Planet ...

Mars has long captivated scientists with its mysterious volcanic landscape, but new revelations are changing the way we ...

A NASA spacecraft that has been circling Mars for more than two decades has spotted something it never has before in well over 100,000 orbits of the Red Planet. On a morning horizon in May, the ...

A dazzling image taken by NASA’s 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter shows an unprecedented view of a 12-mile-high volcano poking through clouds at dawn on the Red Planet. Arsia Mons, which dwarfs Earth’s ...

What may look like a single volcanic eruption is usually the visible outcome of far more complicated activity taking place underground. Beneath the surface, magma can migrate, cool, mix, and ...

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Mars’s marred surface consists of craters, canyons, and mysterious formations that hint at a complex geological past. Scientists recently studied a tantalizing feature that could shed light on the ...

NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter captured the first horizon view of Arsia Mons, an enormous volcano on the Red Planet. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / ASU NASA’s longest-running Mars mission has sent back an ...

A new look at an ancient volcanic blast on Mars suggests that the Red Planet was much more Earth-like billions of years ago, with abundant surface water and a relatively thick atmosphere, scientists ...