Around the same time that the dinosaurs became extinct on Earth, a volcano on Mars went dormant, NASA researchers have learned. Arsia Mons is the southernmost volcano in a group of three massive ...

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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 million ...

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Many scientists have long blamed a single culprit in the sudden and violent mass extinction that took out the dinosaurs: an asteroid that came screaming out of the skies some 66 million years ago. But ...

Maybe it wasn't just the asteroid that killed off most of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago: New research reveals how volcanoes half a world away may have played a role. An asteroid slammed into the ...

A volcano on planet Mars became dormant about the same period when the dinosaurs on Earth went extinct, findings of a new study conducted by NASA researchers suggest. Much of the history of the Arsia ...

Around the same time that the dinosaurs became extinct on Earth, a volcano on Mars went dormant, NASA researchers have learned. Arsia Mons is the southernmost volcano in a group of three massive ...