Massive Martian Volcano Could Have Hosted Life

It’s nearly two times the height of Mount Everest and one of the largest mountains in the solar system, and new research says if life ever existed on Mars, this could have been one of its last hideouts.   The volcano Arsia Mons, while still active, was covered by an enormous glacier around 210 million years ago,  researchers from Brown University say.   The heat from the eruptions on the northwest flank of the giant volcano “would have melted massive amounts of ice to form...

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