On some Mars images, Olympus Mons does not look dramatic at first glance. It sits there quietly, a wide pale rise against ...

Let’s image the simplest, most boring volcano possible. It consists of a magma balloon fed by a straw. The ground is perfectly flat above the balloon. Magma comes up the straw at a constant ...

Rising more than twice the height of Mount Everest, Olympus Mons dominates the landscape of Mars and holds the title of the ...

So. It’s December 31, and that means one thing: that the world – and specifically, Axial Seamount, the volcano lying on the ...