Earth  ID: 4635

Visualizations of Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha'apai and the Martian Landscape

In early 2015, a volcanic eruption in the Kingdom of Tonga created a new island informally known as Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha'apai (HTHH). The subsequent evolution of the new island was previously described in "The Birth of a New Island" available here. Below are additional visualizations, including an updated view of the island's appearance in March 2018 as well as some visualizations of the martian surface. Results of this study can enhance our understanding of numerous small volcanic landforms on Mars whose formation may have been in shallow-water environments during epochs when persistent surface water was present.

The complete visualization of "Using Earth to understand how water may have affected volcanoes on Mars" is available here.

Learn more about the evolution of Earth's newest island and how it could reveal new information about the presence of water on Mars: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2017GL076621
 

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Visualization Credits

Lead Visualizer:
Cindy Starr (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)

Lead Scientist:
James Garvin (NASA, Chief Scientist Goddard)

Scientist:
Daniel A. Slayback (SSAI)

Producer:
LK Ward (USRA)

Narrators:
LK Ward (USRA)
James Garvin (NASA, Chief Scientist Goddard)

Project Support:
Joycelyn Thomson Jones (NASA/GSFC)
Leann Johnson (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
Eric Sokolowsky (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)

Technical Support:
Laurence Schuler (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
Ian Jones (ADNET Systems, Inc.)

Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio

Science Paper:
Garvin J. B. et al. (GRL 45, no. 8, pp. 3445–3453; https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GL076621)

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Data Used:
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)/High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE)/HiRISE
WorldView-2 © 2010 DigitalGlobe
Observed Data - DigitalGlobe - 11-Sep-2010
Worldview-2 © 2018 DigitalGlobe
Observed Data - DigitalGlobe - 20-Mar-2018
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Keywords:
DLESE >> Geology
DLESE >> Structural geology
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Solid Earth >> Volcanoes
SVS >> Hyperwall
SVS >> Volcanic Islands
NASA Science >> Earth

GCMD keywords can be found on the Internet with the following citation: Olsen, L.M., G. Major, K. Shein, J. Scialdone, S. Ritz, T. Stevens, M. Morahan, A. Aleman, R. Vogel, S. Leicester, H. Weir, M. Meaux, S. Grebas, C.Solomon, M. Holland, T. Northcutt, R. A. Restrepo, R. Bilodeau, 2013. NASA/Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords. Version 8.0.0.0.0