#mudVolcano

2025-05-01

Martian Mud Volcanoes

Mars features mounds that resemble our terrestrial mud volcanoes, suggesting that a similar form of mudflow occurs on Mars. But Mars’ thin atmosphere and frigid temperatures mean that water — a prime ingredient of any mud — is almost always in either solid or gaseous form on the planet. So researchers explored whether salty muds could flow under Martian conditions. They tested a variety of salts, at different concentrations, in a low-pressure chamber calibrated to Mars-like temperatures and pressures. The salts lowered water’s freezing point, allowing the muds to remain fluid. Even a relatively small amount of sodium chloride — 2.5% by weight — allowed muds to flow far. The team also found that the salt content affected the shape the flowing mud took, with flows ranging from narrow, ropey patterns to broad, even sheets. (Image credit: P. Brož/Wikimedia Commons; research credit: O. Krýza et al.; via Eos)

#fluidDynamics #geophysics #Mars #mud #mudPots #mudVolcano #physics #planetaryScience #science #viscousFlow

Mud volcanoes here on Earth.
2025-03-20

Trinidad & Tobago Express Newspapers: What’s happening at the Piparo Volcano?…

The University of the West Indies (UWI) has set up instruments at the site of the Piparo mud volcano to monitor volcanic activity, as residents continue to complain of rumblings from the vents close to their homes... #mudvolcano #trinidadandtobago #UWI #seismology

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Matt WillemsenNonog@fedibird.com
2023-05-17

Scientists discover giant crater from ice age explosion that has methane-spewing mud volcano inside it
The Borealis Mud Volcano is only the second found in Norwegian waters and releases a continuous stream of methane-rich, muddy liquid from deep below Earth's crust.
livescience.com/planet-earth/v #MudVolcano #crater #methane

2022-09-15

Unsere vorletzte Station im Vaschlovani Natuonalpark:

Die Schlammvulkane

Bernardo Dainesedainesebernardo
2021-07-05

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