The image, captured by NASA ’s Mars Odyssey orbiter, is the first of its kind: a volcano on the Red Planet seen on the ...

Mars is home to the tallest mountain in the Solar System, Olympus Mons, an extinct volcano three times as tall as Mount Everest. There are several other examples of volcanoes and volcanic features ...

Arsia Mons is the southernmost of the three volcanoes that make up Tharsis Montes, shown in the center of this cropped topographic map of Mars. Olympus Mons, the solar system’s largest volcano ...

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Arsia Mons is the southernmost of the three volcanoes that make up Tharsis Montes, shown in the center of this cropped topographic map of Mars. Olympus Mons, the solar system’s largest volcano ...

NASA studies Mars more than scientists know about our oceans. The Red Planet is the most studied celestial body, and a new ...

Mars, a world of failed plate tectonics, did manage to forge some impressive volcanic features, including Olympus Mons, the largest volcano in the solar system.

NASA’s 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter captured the photo of Arsia Mons, an ancient Martian volcano, while the spacecraft was studying the Red Planet’s atmosphere, which appears here as a greenish haze.