Bisnis.com, JAKARTA – Mars is a very contrasting planet and also has large volcanoes, deep canyons, and craters where water flows or not.
Mars could be an incredible location for future tourists to explore, once we became the first colony on the red planet.
The planet is also a future mission and may need flat land for safety and practical reasons. It’s possible that humans too could land a few days after driving through more interesting rocks. Here are some locations that future Martians could visit.
1. Olympus Mons
Olympus Mons is the most extreme volcano in the solar system. The location is in the volcanic region of Tharsis, about the size of the state of Arizona, according to NASA. Its height of up to 16 miles (25 kilometers) makes it nearly three times the height of Earth’s Mount Everest, which is about 5.5 miles (8.9 kilometers) high.
Olympus Mons is a giant shield volcano, which forms after lava slowly descends into a crater over a slope. This means that the mountain may be easy to explore by climbing in the future, as the average slope is only 5 percent.
At its peak is a feeling of spectacular 53 miles (85 kilometers) wide depression, which was formed by magma chambers that lost lava (possibly during an eruption) and collapsed.
2. Tharsis Volcanoes
As you hike around Olympus Mons, it’s worth sticking to see some of the other volcanoes in the Tharsis region. Tharsis hosts 12 giant volcanoes in a zone about 2,500 miles (4000 kilometers) wide, according to NASA.
Like Olympus Mons, these volcanoes tend to be much larger than those on Earth, possibly because Mars has a weaker gravitational pull that allows volcanoes to grow tall. This volcano may have been erupting for 2 billion years, or half of the history of Mars.
This image shows the eastern region of Tharsis, as depicted by Viking 1 in 1980. On the left, from top to bottom, you can see three shield volcanoes approximately 16 miles (25 kilometers) high: Ascraeus Mons, Pavonis Mons, and Arsia Mons. At the top right is another shield volcano called Tharsis Tholus.
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