This includes Olympus Mons, the tallest volcano in the solar system. Arsia Mons itself measures 435km (270 miles) in diameter and rises more than 9km (5.5 miles) above the surrounding plains.

Microbial life could potentially have thrived for a time at the foot of Arsia Mons, a giant volcano about twice as tall as Mt. Everest, while the dinosaurs were just coming into their own on Earth ...

But the reality is that it's been at least 10 million years since the formidable Arsia Mons erupted. It must have been a pretty remarkable eruption, too, as the volcano is an incredible 270 miles ...

Arsia Mons is the southernmost volcano in a group of three massive Martian volcanoes known collectively as Tharsis Montes. Until now, the volcano’s history has remained a mystery.

Arsia Mons, an ancient Martian volcano, was captured before dawn on May 2, 2025, by NASA’s 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter while the spacecraft was studying the Red Planet’s atmosphere, which ...

At its peak, Arsia Mons may have produced roughly 1 to 8 cubic km of magma every million years. “Think of it like a slow, leaky faucet of magma,” Richardson said.

The Arsia Mons cloud is one of the wonders of Mars. It may be less of a mystery now, but it's just as fascinating as ever.

The volcano Arsia Mons, while still active, was covered by an enormous glacier around 210 million years ago, researchers from Brown University say.

Pavonis Mars is above Arsia Mons in this photograph, and Ascraeus Mons is at the top of the chain. The Tharsis region extends from -30° to 60° lat 210° to 270° lon, and has been. Credit: LPI, NASA ...

Arsia Mons produced one new lava flow at its summit every 1 to 3 million years during the final peak of activity, about 50 million years ago. The last volcanic activity there ceased about 50 ...