PARIS — Early morning frost has been detected on the peaks of massive volcanoes on Mars, an unexpected discovery about the dispersal of water on Mars that could one day prove essential for human exploration, scientists said.
The early morning frost was spotted in images taken by the European Space Agency's Trace Gas Orbiter, according to a study published in the journal Nature Geoscience on Monday.The immense volcanoes are in the Tharsis plateau, an elevated region nearly 5,000 kilometers wide near the Martian equator. This handout photo obtained on June 10, 2024 courtesy of ESA shows a 3D model of the Olympus Mons volcano on Mars , as observed by the HRSC camera aboard ESA’s Mars Express.
The Trace Gas Orbiter, which has been orbiting Mars since 2018, was able to take images when the first rays of the Sun crossed over the tops of the volcanoes.'We saw a shiny, blue deposit there, a particular texture that we only see in the early morning and during the cold seasons,' Schmidt said.The layer of the ice is only the thickness of a hair — and it does not last long.
Discovered On Top Of Giant Mars Volcanoes
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