Pieterek, Bartosz and Jones, Thomas (2026) Recent explosive lava-water interaction in Tharsis, Mars. npj Space Exploration, 2 (1): 15.
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The spatiotemporal distribution of water on Mars is fundamental to understanding the planet’s evolution. Comprehensive integration and analysis of high-resolution remotely sensed datasets have enabled the investigation of previously uninterpreted small-scale volcanic landforms that imply the involvement of water during formation. Although volcanism has played a dominant role in shaping the Martian surface, irrespective of the physical state of water, there is little evidence of magma-water or lava-water interactions, especially in young, late Amazonian-aged volcanic provinces. Here, by combining surface imagery with topographic data and spectral analyses, we report the presence of rootless volcanic cones formed by explosive lava-water interaction during the late Amazonian (