Supervolcano on Mars and MAVEN Update
Mars Crater Could Be a Huge Ancient Volcano
You’ve all heard of Yellowstone National Park, right? It’s in the northwestern part of Wyoming, and features geysers, mud pots and other manifestations of volcanic activity (but without the actual volcanic mountain). Well, scientists have been saying for a while that it could explode someday as a supervolcano because it has done so in the distant past. When that happens, people in several states (including mine) could be affected. So, they keep studying its ground movements, measuring quakes as they come, and keeping notes as the sleeping giant of a volcano dozes.
New research suggests the Eden Patera basin on Mars could have been formed by an explosive volcanic eruption, not the impact of a large object.
Seen above, for the basin and surrounding area, higher elevations (reds and yellows) and lower elevations (blues and grays) are indicated.
Credit: NASA/JPL/GSFC
It turns out that supervolcanoes aren’t limited to Earth. Mars may have one as well. Planetary scientists studying a region on the Red Planet called Eden Patera. It looks like just about any impact crater we’ve seen, but based on images taken from orbit, the area may well be a very ancient supervolcano. The last time it erupted, it may have blown a huge amount of magma (lava) rich in gases out to the surrounding landscape. As everything cooled, the volcano sank, leaving behind a depression similar to what we see at Yellowstone.
The Martian supervolcano may well have altered the Red Planet’s temperature for a while. It spewed huge amounts of ash and lava, much more than some of the other volcanoes on Mars. This material would have spread up through the atmosphere, and that would have blocked the sunlight and cooled things down.
After a two-day shutdown, processing work will resume on the MAVEN spacecraft, shown here during an illumination test at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. (Courtesy NASA/Kim Shiflett)
Update on MAVEN
Source: http://thespacewriter.com/wp/2013/10/03/supervolcano-on-mars-and-maven-update/
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