Image of the Day is a popular section of the US space agency NASA’s website – not only on its astronomy pages (such as here), but also on the NASA Earth Observatory page focused on Earth research. The selected satellite image is always accompanied by expert commentary.
The March 2 article features images of volcanoes named „cinder cones“ from Earth and Mars and comments on their contrasting properties on the two planets (available here). The text cites planetary geologist Petr Brož from the Institute of Geophysics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, who is a member of the team of “Surface Processes & Palaeoclimate“, and focuses primarily on manifestations of volcanic activity on Mars and other bodies of the Solar system. In his work Petr uses the analysis of satellite images and topographic data to interpret geological processes on planetary surfaces.
Brož, P., O. Čadek, E. Hauber, A. P. Rossi (2015), Scoria cones on Mars: Detailed investigation of morphometry based on high-resolution digital elevation models, J. Geophys. Res., Planets, 120, doi: 10.1002/2015JE004873.
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2015JE004873
Mars: May 7, 2014 (NASA) Interpreted scoria cones in the Tharsis volcanic region.
Earth: June 19, 2025 (NASA); Vulkanické pole San Francisco, Arizona (USA)