Supervolcanoes 'shaped Mars evolution'

Name: Supervolcanoes 'shaped Mars evolution'
Uploaded: 2013-10-02T18:14:20.000Z
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Description: Early Mars may have been wracked by giant explosive volcanoes that spewed billions upon billions of tonnes of rock and ash into the sky.

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Mars may once have been rocked by titanic supervolcanos with eruptions thousands of times stronger than those on Earth.

The new research increases the possibility that life may have existed on the red planet 3.5 billion years ago.

Pallab Ghosh reports.

Science & Environment

2 October 2013