Martian volcanoes 'may be active'

[nacnud]

<font color="yellow"><b>Martian volcanoes 'may be active'</b> <br />By Paul Rincon <br />BBC News science reporter, in Cambridge <br /><br />Fields of volcanic cones discovered at the North Pole of Mars suggest the Red Planet could still be geologically active, scientists have said. <br /><br />The cones, seen in images from Europe's Mars Express probe, have no blemishes from impact craters. This suggests the volcanoes erupted very recently and that the site could have ongoing volcanism. <br /><br />Mars Express scientist Gerhard Neukum presented the results at a conference in Cambridge. "Mars is a planet that was very recently active - maybe one, or two, or three million years ago. And in some areas, I have the impression it is really ongoing," said Dr Neukum, of the Free University in Berlin, Germany. More<br /><br /><font color="white">So could this be the source of the methane discovered earlier?</font></font>

 

[Leovinus]

Did we ever land seismometers on Mars? <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[vogon13]

Vikings each had one. IIRC, Viking 2 did not work and Viking 1 was plagued with wind induced vibrations of the lander. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#ff0000"><strong>TPTB went to Dallas and all I got was Plucked !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#339966"><strong>So many people, so few recipes !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#0000ff"><strong>Let's clean up this stinkhole !!</strong></font> </p> </div>