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A Stinky Gas Seeping From The Bowels of Mars May Reveal The Planet Is Still Volcanically Active


Mars has undergone some monumental PR shifts over the past few centuries.  Once thought to be criss-crossed with canals created by an untold alien race, it has since been reclassified as still red but overwhelmingly dead.  Newer research has shown our smaller neighbor was once tantalizingly watery and habitable, and we now know it's all sorts of active, awash in green aurorae (which we may one day personally glimpse), surprisingly recent lava flows, and some real rattling marsquakes.

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