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Apparently, Mars has at least one active volcano, "Arsia Mons", that apparently erupts once per day, and puts out a huge cloud/gas/debris trail. This is intere
by peter_d_sherman 6y ago
Apparently, Mars has at least one active volcano, "Arsia Mons", that apparently erupts once per day, and puts out a huge cloud/gas/debris trail.
This is interesting to me!
Why?
Well, while Jezero Crater might be of interest to the Perseverance Rover and NASA, there are (at least) three places (or types of place!) on Mars that hold a higher interest to me...
They are:
1) Poles.
2) Active Volcanoes (Arsia Mons seems to be one of them...)
3) Caves (if any are found)
Why?
In an apparently endlessly repeating martian terrain of barren plains, rocks, craters, and mountains, the poles, the active volcanoes, and caves, if any could be found, are the statistical outliers, the extremes, the anomalies, the singularities, the "googlewhacks" (for lack of a better term) -- of endlessly repeating and repeating Martian terrain.
In other words, if there was something interesting to be found on Mars -- those would be the places to look for it...
The video referenced above -- discusses one of those places, the active volcano "Arsia Mons".
That's why it's interesting to me...