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Scientists have found evidence of supervolcanoes on Mars. Several craters, thought to be created by impacts from space, may have actually been caused by explosive volcanic eruptions thousands of times larger than your garden variety volcano.

Read the paper: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature12482

21 April 1990 eruptive column from Redoubt Volcano, as viewed to the west from the Kenai Peninsula. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Moon Venus Mercury & Mars (Photo credit: sleepychinchilla)

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