we know without any question that there was volcanism on the surface of mars and, in fact, the largest volcano in our solar system exists at olympus mons, which is a volcano so high that the peak actually pierces through the atmosphere of mars. wow. yeah. and in the whole area of the basin around the volcano olympus mons it is believed there are certainly lava tubes. here s something else that s really exciting about this lava tube. now, mars is red because there is a lot of iron in the rocks. and that white glistening stuff there, that is icelandic cave bacteria. it doesn t need any light to live. it can survive in near freezing temperature. it just feeds off the iron and the sulphur in the rocks down here, away
flowed on downhill. and instead of having to drill out underground shelters, lunar and martian lava tubes would create ready made protection from the hazards above. we know without any question that there was volcanism on the surface of mars and, in fact, the largest volcano in our solar system exists at olympus mons, which is a volcano so high that the peak actually pierces through the atmosphere of mars. wow. yeah. and in the whole area of the basin around the volcano olympus mons it is believed there are certainly lava tubes. here s something else that s really exciting about this lava tube. now, mars is red because there is a lot of iron in the rocks. and that white glistening stuff there, that is icelandic cave bacteria.
wow. yeah. and in the whole area of the basin around the volcano olympus mons it is believed there are certainly lava tubes. here s something else that s really exciting about this lava tube. now, mars is red because there is a lot of iron in the rocks. and that white glistening stuff there, that is icelandic cave bacteria. it doesn t need any light to live. it can survive in near freezing temperature. it just feeds off the iron and the sulphur in the rocks down here, away from everything else. so what we think is that if there are lava tubes on mars, there could be life in there, too. next, daniel is keen to show me another terrestrial analogue
would create ready made protection from the hazards above. we know without any question that there was volcanism on the surface of mars and, in fact, the largest volcano in our solar system exists at olympus mons, which is a volcano so high that the peak actually pierces through the atmosphere of mars. wow. yeah. and in the whole area of the basin around the volcano olympus mons it is believed there are certainly lava tubes. here s something else that s really exciting about this lava tube. now, mars is red because there is a lot of iron in the rocks. and that white glistening stuff there, that is icelandic cave bacteria. it doesn t need any light to live. it can survive in near freezing temperature. it just feeds off the iron and the sulphur in the rocks
leaving behind a roof of cooling rock and an empty space after the lava flowed on downhill. and instead of having to drill out underground shelters, lunar and martian lava tubes would create ready made protection from the hazards above. we know without any question that there was volcanism on the surface of mars and, in fact, the largest volcano in our solar system exists at olympus mons, which is a volcano so high that the peak actually pierces through the atmosphere of mars. wow. yeah. and in the whole area of the basin around the volcano olympus mons it is believed there are certainly lava tubes. here s something else that s really exciting about this lava tube. now, mars is red because there is a lot of iron in the rocks.