Higher than Mount Everest – researchers have overlooked the giant Martian volcano for decades. The newly discovered volcano is located on Mars' equator, east of Noctis Labyrinthus and west of Valles Marineris.
It is known to have been active for a very long period of time and to have formed in the early days of Mars. The potential presence of water ice at shallow depths on the equator could be of great interest for future space missions, as humans could potentially use the water for themselves and as rocket fuel.