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We have a new baby volcano trying to grow up and become a big, important volcano, up in Iceland. It started, as all such babies do, as a small vent in what is an area full of old, dormant volcanoes, and this particular vent sits on the Atlantic Ridge. Last night (3\/23\/21), the volcano was extremely active, but this morning has calmed down. It is not going to stop any time soon. The vent itself goes back 6,000 years or more. The last time that vent erupted was about 600 years ago, and the eruption lasted 30 years, hence the rather large, quiet hills around this valley.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s the link:\u00a0 https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BA-9QzIcr3c<\/a><\/p>\n Meantime, Etna, the previously quiet volcano sitting on the island of Sicily not too far from the Navy\u2019s base at Sigonella, decided a couple of years ago to \u201cstart something\u201d, and has been outgassing and erupting heavily since then. So far, the damage has been mostly to local housing, although there is footage of some lava rolling down a street. The eruptions do not appear to be stopping any time soon.\u00a0 https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=q-RfBqAHfr8<\/a><\/p>\n And one may logically ask, if there is volcanic activity (right now, 32 of them are busy erupting) on Earth, does it happen elsewhere in the solar system?<\/p>\n Well, yes. Yes, it does. We have Voyager photos from the 1990s of ice geysers on one of Saturn\u2019s moons and flyover views of Titan\u2019s surface from the drone that was sent there a while back. But on Mars? That dead ball of red rock and dust? The planet with blue sunsets?<\/p>\n Seriously, something is going on up there on Mars. Even Bowie asked that question, a long time ago.<\/p>\n The video from Anton Petrov (Ontario, teaches maths and physics), says that something is definitely going on.\u00a0 The plume is water vapor, just like Earth clouds, stretches from the Arsia Mons crater about 1200 kilometers until it dissipates, and disappears at night. Only shows up in the Martian summer season.<\/p>\n