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A Stinky Gas Seeping From The Bowels of Mars May Reveal The Planet Is Still Volcanically Active
ScienceAlert · By Ivan Farkas ·
The Brief · written from 2 sources
- The European Space Agency's Trace Gas Orbiter detected the gas hydrogen chloride coming from some areas of Mars.
- The detections are near the Alba Mons volcano, where many cracks are visible in the surface.
- ScienceAlert says the gas may show Mars is still volcanically active, while EarthSky frames the finding as possible rather than established.
Why it matters
If Mars is still volcanically active, that could have major implications for the search for life, according to ScienceAlert. EarthSky presents the finding as tentative.
Who’s affected
- Planetary scientists
- Astrobiologists
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- #volcanism
- #hydrogen-chloride
- #trace-gas-orbiter
- #astrobiology
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