“We’re still unsure of how and when Aganippe Fossa came to be, but it seems likely that it was formed as magma rising underneath the colossal mass of the Tharsis volcanoes caused Mars’s crus ...

The holes, aka pits, are located on the flanks of ancient volcanoes in Mars's Tharsis region, the largest volcanic region on the red planet and home to some of the biggest volcanoes in our solar ...

Mars is a planet of extremes, and no region epitomizes this more than the Tharsis province, long recognized as a nexus of volcanic and tectonic activity 1.This province seems to be a giant ...

With the exception of the volcanic Tharsis region the boundary between ... All indications are that Mars had a warmer, watery past, and there have been proposals that included an ocean filling ...

While Mars currently has no active volcanoes, the research hints that the Tharsis region may have undergone recent volcanic resurfacing, suggesting that volcanic activity on Mars might be more ...

A long-lost moon could explain why Mars is so different from the other rocky planets in the solar system. Today, Mars has two tiny moons. But early in its history, the Red Planet may have had a ...

I work on MAVEN's IUVS instrument in order to understand topographic clouds over Mars' Tharsis region. I'm working to retrieve cloud morphologies from our data and compare our observations to global ...