Graduate Student Discovers New Form of Lava Flow on Mars
Thursday, April 26, 2012 - 13:30
in Astronomy & Space
High-resolution photos of lava flows on Mars reveal coiling spiral patterns that resemble snail or nautilus shells. Such patterns have been found in a few locations on Earth, but never before on Mars. The discovery, made by Arizona State University graduate student Andrew Ryan, is announced in a paper published April 27, 2012, in the scientific journal Science.