Arsia Mons, an ancient Martian volcano, was captured before dawn on May 2, 2025, by NASA’s 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter while the spacecraft was studying the Red Planet’s atmosphere, which ...

On a morning horizon in May, the Odyssey orbiter caught a stunning glimpse of one of the planet's largest volcanoes peeking above a canopy of clouds. Known as Arsia Mons, the volcano dwarfs Earth ...

Mars orbiter that launched from Florida captures 1st-ever pic of volcano above clouds Known as Arsia Mons, the volcano on Mars dwarfs Earth’s tallest volcano, Mauna Loa in Hawaii.

Captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter, the stunning panoramic photo shows Arsia Mons rising above early morning clouds. It's the first time a Martian volcano has been photographed on the ...

NASA’s venerable 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter has delivered a stunning new panorama of the Red Planet, revealing the colossal Arsia Mons volcano majestically peeking above a canopy of morning clouds.

Home > Science NASA Mission Captures Unprecedented View of Massive Martian Volcano Arsia Mons is twice as large as Earth's biggest volcano.

NASA’s longest-running mission to Mars has delivered an extraordinary side view of Arsia Mons, a colossal, long-extinct volcano rising from the Red Planet’s surface just before dawn. On May 2, as ...

A bit after sunrise on June 6, 2025, NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter saw one of Mars' biggest volcanoes, Arsia Mons, as it broke through the clouds. The volcano is the cloudiest of the Tharsis ...

One of Mars' tallest volcanoes peeps over a thick layer of clouds, in Odyssey’s first picture of Arsia Mons peering over the Red Planet's horizon.

Arsia Mons and two other volcanoes form what is known as the Tharsis Montes, or Tharsis Mountains, which are often surrounded by water ice clouds (as opposed to Mars’ equally common carbon dioxide ...

Arsia Mons, part of the Tharsis Montes volcanic chain, rises 12 miles (20 km) above the surface, twice the height of Mauna Loa, Earth’s largest volcano. Unlike Mars’ carbon dioxide clouds, Tharsis ...