Volcanic landscape in the Timanfaya area of the island of Lanzarote. The island is volcanic in origin, with volcanic cones seen on the horizon amid landscapes of volcanic rock. There are some 300 extinct volcanoes on the 60-kilometre-long island. Because there is little rain, and hence little erosion by water, the landscape is mostly unchanged since the volcanic eruptions (most recently in the 18th and 19th centuries). Lanzarote, part of the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean, is 110 kilometres off the coast of North Africa. This area was the location for one of the elements of the Pangaea training course (started in 2016), designed to simulate a planetary mission to Mars. | |
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Credit: | Science Photo Library / EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY / M. Barnabei |
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