Astonishing.
Scientists are positing that Mars' giant Olympus Mons volcano, which is roughly the size of France, may once have been an island — a finding that could further the search for water and even signs of ancient life on the Red Planet.
New research undertaken by France's National Centre for Scientific Research suggests that the epic volcano shares "morphological similarities with active volcanic islands on Earth," the paper's authors wrote in the
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