{"id":185027,"date":"2024-03-13T14:25:31","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T19:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/unveiling-mars-hidden-giant-the-discovery-of-the-noctis-volcano"},"modified":"2024-03-13T14:25:31","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T19:25:31","slug":"unveiling-mars-hidden-giant-the-discovery-of-the-noctis-volcano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/unveiling-mars-hidden-giant-the-discovery-of-the-noctis-volcano","title":{"rendered":"Unveiling Mars\u2019 Hidden Giant: The Discovery of the Noctis Volcano"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sourabh Shubham: \u201cThis area of Mars is known to have a wide variety of hydrated minerals spanning a long stretch of Martian history. A volcanic setting for these minerals had long been suspected. So, it may not be too surprising to find a volcano here. In some sense, this large volcano is a long-sought \u2018smoking gun\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The planet Mars is known for its vast array of inactive shield volcanoes, and a new volcano could be added to the family with a recent study<\/a> presented at the 55th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference<\/em>, as a team of researchers announced the discovery of a massive volcano on Mars<\/a> that is buried underneath the surface and could even possess a base comprised of glacier ice. This study holds the potential to help scientists better understand past volcanism and glaciation on the Red Planet that could provide clues to Mars\u2019 geologic history.<\/p>\n

For the study, the researchers used images from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera and data from the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM), which are both onboard NASA\u2019s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), along with data from the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA) that was onboard the Mars Global Surveyor to analyze \u201cNoctis Mons\u201d (official name pending), which is located southeast of Mars\u2019 Tharsis volcanic region and in the western region of Valles Marineris, known as the largest and deepest canyon in the solar system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sourabh Shubham: \u201cThis area of Mars is known to have a wide variety of hydrated minerals spanning a long stretch of Martian history. A volcanic setting for these minerals had long been suspected. So, it may not be too surprising to find a volcano here. In some sense, this large volcano is a long-sought \u2018smoking [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":706,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/706"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}