NASA confirms Mars region had thousands of ancient volcanic eruptions
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NASA scientists have found evidence that thousands of massive ancient volcanoes erupted on Mars.
Researchers who studied the topography and mineral composition of the region made the discovery, and the news was published in a paper in the journal Geophysical Research Letters in July 2021.
"Each one of these eruptions would have had a significant climate impact — maybe the released gas made the atmosphere thicker or blocked the sun and made the atmosphere colder," Patrick Whelley, a geologist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center who led the Arabia Terra analysis, said in a release. "Modelers of the Martian climate will have some work to do to try to understand the impact of the volcanoes."
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