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Possible mud volcano on Mars, Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Univ. of Arizona |
Tens of thousands of volcano-looking features exist across the northern lowlands and other areas across Mars. In the past, these volcanoes were thought to be caused by lava flows from the planet’s interior. However, a new study published in the journal Nature Geoscience has postulated that many of these “volcanoes” may have actually flowed mud, not lava.To finish reading, click on "Many Martian Volcanoes May Be Mudflows".
Petr Brož from the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague and colleagues from several institutions across Europe conducted 21 mudflow experiments. Many of their experiments used subfreezing temperatures and atmospheric pressures less than that of Earth in an attempt to simulate the conditions on Mars.
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