{"id":240807,"date":"2025-06-24T02:54:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T16:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=240900b13dc83da9cd27b0f0643a718d"},"modified":"2025-06-24T02:54:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T16:54:14","slug":"a-martian-volcano-in-the-mist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=240807","title":{"rendered":"A Martian Volcano in the Mist"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-media hds-module wp-block-image\">\n<div class=\"margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline\">\n<div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\">\n<figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-cover \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1-themis-views-mars-arsia-mons-volcano-crop1-c27fa8.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"535\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1-themis-views-mars-arsia-mons-volcano-crop1-c27fa8.webp?w=2048\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"A black mountain peak shows through water ice clouds on Mars. Just above the clouds is the hazy green Martian atmosphere.\" style=\"transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 28% 58%; object-position: 28% 58%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1-themis-views-mars-arsia-mons-volcano-crop1-c27fa8.webp 4899w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1-themis-views-mars-arsia-mons-volcano-crop1-c27fa8.webp?resize=300,78 300w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1-themis-views-mars-arsia-mons-volcano-crop1-c27fa8.webp?resize=768,201 768w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1-themis-views-mars-arsia-mons-volcano-crop1-c27fa8.webp?resize=1024,268 1024w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1-themis-views-mars-arsia-mons-volcano-crop1-c27fa8.webp?resize=1536,401 1536w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1-themis-views-mars-arsia-mons-volcano-crop1-c27fa8.webp?resize=2048,535 2048w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1-themis-views-mars-arsia-mons-volcano-crop1-c27fa8.webp?resize=400,105 400w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1-themis-views-mars-arsia-mons-volcano-crop1-c27fa8.webp?resize=600,157 600w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1-themis-views-mars-arsia-mons-volcano-crop1-c27fa8.webp?resize=900,235 900w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1-themis-views-mars-arsia-mons-volcano-crop1-c27fa8.webp?resize=1200,314 1200w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1-themis-views-mars-arsia-mons-volcano-crop1-c27fa8.webp?resize=2000,523 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\">\n<div class=\"hds-credits\">NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/ASU<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Arsia Mons, one of the Red Planet\u2019s largest volcanoes, peeks through a blanket of water ice clouds in this image captured by NASA\u2019s 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter on May 2, 2025. Odyssey used a camera called the Thermal Emission Imaging System (<a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/mission\/odyssey\/science-instruments\/#thermal-emission-imaging\" rel=\"noopener\">THEMIS<\/a>) to capture this view while studying the Martian atmosphere, which appears here as a greenish haze above the scene. A large crater known as a caldera, produced by massive volcanic explosions and collapse, is located at the summit. At 72 miles (120 kilometers) wide, the <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/resource\/investigating-mars-arsia-mons\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Arsia Mons summit caldera<\/a> is larger than many volcanoes on Earth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/missions\/odyssey\/nasa-mars-orbiter-captures-volcano-peeking-above-morning-cloud-tops\/\">Learn more about Arsia Mons and Mars Odyssey.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Image Credit: NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/ASU<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsia Mons, one of the Red Planet\u2019s largest volcanoes, peeks through a blanket of water ice clouds in this image captured by NASA\u2019s 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter on May 2, 2025. Odyssey used a camera called the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) to capture this view while studying the Martian atmosphere, which appears here as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7727],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mars"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=240807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240808,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240807\/revisions\/240808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=240807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=240807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=240807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}