The structure was found alongside possible glacier ice, which has implications for Martian habitability.
A giant volcano has been found in Mars’ Tharsis plateau, making it the fourth known volcano in the region. Heavily eroded, the 29,600-foot volcano has been hiding in plain sight, sneaking its mug into images of the Tharsis region but never actually being seen. Until now. The volcano’s discovery was announced this week at the 55th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Texas. Abutting the maze-like geology of Noctis Labyrinthus, the giant volcano has been provisionally named Noctis Mons.
The team believes the volcano is a shield composed of layered lava, ice, and pyroclastic material. As faults and fractures formed in the volcano, lava rose, causing thermal erosion and, ultimately, the collapse of swaths of the volcano. While the newly discovered volcano just edges out Mount Everest in the height department, it’s comfortably dwarfed by Mars’ largest volcano, Olympus Mons, which is the size of Arizona and an imposing 16 miles high.
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