A suspicious volcano (circle) is near the big Jezero Crater on Mars
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A volcano as well known as near the rim of Jezero crater to Mars, which is explored by NASA’s development. The vehicle may be inclined to materially shortened by ancient eruptions.
The maintenance of the anticipation of Jezero Craser in 2021 and gradually produced the westward path, driving the dry stream, thought of flowing about 3 to 4 billion years ago.
Rover collected samples intended to be returned to the world as part of the Mars Sample retury mission in 2030s, even if it was now threatened with Suggested Trump administration cuts on NASA.
Some of the materials in samples are considered to have volcanoes, including signs of lava flow. Now, James Wray At the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta and his companions found a possible source – a volcanic dormant in the southeastern rim of Jezero named Jezero Mons.
High-resolution visualization from Mars orbirers reveals good material material on the mountain, compatible with ash from a volcano. The size and shape of the Marazo Mons – 21 kilometers wide and two kilometers long-equal to equal Volcanoes in the world.
“An adhatous intercano interpretation seems to be most consistent with observations,” Wray said, Magma burned from the bottom of the face. “This is the strongest case we can never walk.”
By counting craters near the volcano, his team estimates that Jezero Mons can last recently in 1 billion years, Laza and rocks on landing in the area of JezeRa.
That means the rover may have collected samples from the volcano. If so, and if they can be returned to the ground, scientists can be properly dating the activity of a volcano on another planet for the first time.
“You know when the volcano is active, as cooler,” as Briony Horn In Purdue University in Indiana, which is part of the rover science team. It can give us important information to “How is the interior progress on the planet over time”, he said.
Even better, Wray says, to drive to keep the volcanic self, even if that doesn’t happen. “They drive in the opposite direction, because there is truly interesting old rocks outside the western wire,” he said. “I don’t blame them.”
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