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Giant Cloud Reappears above Martian Volcano The Visual Monitoring Camera (VMC) on ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft has captured new images of a giant cloud over the 20-km (12.4-mile) high Arsia Mons volcano, the southernmost in a trio of giant Martian shield volcanoes known collectively as Tharsis Montes. These images, taken …

According to new research reported in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters, the 10-mile- (16 km) high Martian shield volcano called Arsia Mons produced one new lava flow at its summit every 1 to 3 million years during the final peak of activity; the last volcanic activity there ceased …