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A team of NASA scientists headed to Holuhraun because the volcano has geologic cousins on Mars.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Jesse Allen and Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and data from the Context Camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Photographs by Jacob Richardson for NASA. Story by Adam Voiland, with information and fact checking by Jacob Bleacher, Patrick Whelley, Jacob Richardson, Dan Berman, and Gareth Morgan.

Published October 9, 2018
Data acquired January 4, 2012

Sources:
Landsat 8
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
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