{"id":49640,"date":"2025-06-09T15:39:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T10:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=49640"},"modified":"2025-06-10T10:37:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T05:07:34","slug":"arsia-mons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/arsia-mons\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsia Mons"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Arsia Mons Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>NASA\u2019s 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter recently delivered a stunning new picture from Mars, capturing the colossal Arsia Mons volcano piercing through a dense layer of early morning clouds.<\/p>\n<h2>About Arsia Mons<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Arsia Mons is a\u00a0<strong>massive shield volcano<\/strong>\u00a0located in the\u00a0<strong>Tharsis region of Mars.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is<strong>\u00a0one of the largest volcanoes in the solar system<\/strong>, with a height of over 18 kilometers (11 miles) and a base diameter of more than 300 kilometers (190 miles), dwarfing Earth&#8217;s tallest volcano, Mauna Loa, which rises 6 miles (9 kilometers) above the seafloor.<\/li>\n<li>Arsia Mons is\u00a0<strong>part of the Tharsis Montes, a group of three large shield volcanoes<\/strong>\u00a0on Mars.<\/li>\n<li>It is the southernmost of the three Tharsis Montes volcanoes.<\/li>\n<li>The volcano has a caldera (summit crater) that is approximately 110 kilometers (68 miles) wide.<\/li>\n<li>Arsia Mons is believed to have been\u00a0<strong>volcanically active for billions of years<\/strong>, with the most\u00a0<strong>recent eruptions occurring within the past 2 million years.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>flanks\u00a0<\/strong>of Arsia Mons are\u00a0<strong>covered in lava flows, channels, and other volcanic features,\u00a0<\/strong>indicating a long and complex eruptive history.<\/li>\n<li>Arsia Mons is thought to have\u00a0<strong>formed through the gradual accumulation of fluid basaltic lava flows<\/strong>, characteristic of shield volcano formation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Arsia Mons FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. Where is Arsia Mons located?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Tharsis region of Mars<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. What type of volcano is Arsia Mons?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Shield volcano<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. How tall is Arsia Mons?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Over 18 km<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/science\/nasa-captures-mars-volcano-twice-the-height-of-earths-tallest-peaks-8615206\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u00a0NDTV<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsia Mons is a massive shield volcano in Mars&#8217; Tharsis region, known for its vast size, caldera, and potential signs of ancient volcanic activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[772],"class_list":{"0":"post-49640","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","7":"tag-arsia-mons","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}