During the 55th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference held in Texas (USA), scientists at SETI Institute revealed the discovery of a giant volcano and possible sheet of buried glacier ice in the eastern part of Mars’ Tharsis volcanic province, near the planet’s equator.
- The giant volcano had been hiding in plain sight for decades in one of Mars’ most iconic regions, at the boundary between the heavily fractured maze-like Noctis Labyrinthus (Labyrinth of the Night) and the monumental canyons of Valles Marineris.
- It has been provisionally designated “Noctis volcano”.
- “Noctis volcano” is 29,600 feet in elevation and stretches 450 kilometres in width.
