The European Space Agency announced a few days ago that an international research team used the Mars Trace Gas Mission satellite to discover abnormal hydrogen chloride gas distribution and surface cracks in the Mount Alba region of Mars. This indicates that the Martian interior may still retain heat that supports volcanic activity. The research team published a paper in the new issue of the American “Science Advances” magazine saying that the concentration of hydrogen chloride in the atmosphere of Mars usually peaks in the northern hemisphere in winter and basically disappears in summer. However, above some fissures in Mount Alba, hydrogen chloride concentrations peaked abnormally in early summer in the northern hemisphere. Researchers speculate that gas released from underground magma may escape upward through these cracks. The severe cold in winter causes the cracks to be blocked by ice, and the gas may escape along the cracks after the ice melts in early summer. Researchers believe that if lava meets groundwater, it may form a warm, local environment suitable for life, so they can try to find life on Mars in gaps where gas escapes from the Mount Alba region.

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