Visible on the planet itself is a dark patch near the top, marking the frigid northern polar cap, where temperatures dip to ...

NASA Odyssey orbiter snapped a first-ever image of a Mars volcano peeking above clouds before dawn. It’s twice as tall as Earth’s largest volcano.

Mars orbiter spots volcano peeking above clouds. Arsia Mons, an ancient Martian volcano, was captured before dawn on May 2, 2025, by NASA’s 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter while the spacecraft was ...

Olympus Mons is the largest volcano in the Solar System, however, it’s not on Earth. The massive volcano is on the surface of ...

Young Mars would have been a staggering place to explore. The Red Planet was covered in flowing rivers of both water and lava. At the time, a series of four volcanoes — Olympus Mons and the ...

Figure 1: A giant volcano hiding in plain sight in one of Mars’ most iconic regions. The newly discovered giant volcano on Mars is located just south of the planet’s equator, in Eastern Noctis ...

Volcanoes may be even more widespread across Mars than we thought." A mountain in the margins Wray first noticed the mountain in 2007, while considering Jezero Crater as a graduate student.

A bit after sunrise on June 6, 2025, NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter saw one of Mars' biggest volcanoes, Arsia Mons, as it broke through the clouds.

Mars orbiter spots volcano peeking above clouds A panorama shot captured by Odyssey shows one of Mars' tallest volcanoes poking through clouds just before dawn. The image marks the first time a ...