ESA has captured the cratered, fissured face of the second-highest volcano on Mars. details here

Ascraeus Mons is the northernmost and highest of the three major volcanoes found in the Tharsis region of Mars. The Tharsis region of the planet is a volcanic plateau in the western hemisphere of Mars.

Ascraeus Mons measures 18 km in height and has a base diameter of 480 km, giving it a footprint on Earth the size of Romania. With this height, it shows that Ascraeus is higher than the height of Mons. mount everest Whose height is 8,848.86 meters above sea level as of March 2020.

Ascraeus Mons is only surpassed in height by Olympus Mons as the tallest volcano not only on Mars but in the entire Solar System, ESA states.

According to ESA, there is a dramatic difference in altitude from one side to the other, with the left (southern) part of the frame sitting about 10 km lower than the right (northern) side.

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In addition, there are several wrinkly lava flows on the right side of the frame. According to the ESA, this compacted plain then encounters chains of ‘pit craters’, where strings of circular or near-circular sediments coalesce and coalesce to form troughs.

The ESA further states that ‘sinusoidal reels’, which are small, meandering channels without a rim that are often found near the edges of volcanoes, are present on the ground to the left of crater chains. Their formation is still unclear but may include lava, ash or water or a combination of all three.

Meanwhile, Mars Express has been orbiting the Red Planet since 2003, imaging the surface of Mars, mapping its minerals, identifying the composition and circulation of its tenuous atmosphere, probing beneath its crust is doing, and finding out how different phenomena interact in the Martian atmosphere.