Speaker: Dr Petr Broz

Dr Broz will talk about classic silicate lava eruptions on rocky bodies like Earth and Mars to massive shield volcanoes such as Olympus Mons, the largest known volcano. On icy worlds, cryovolcanism erupts water, ammonia, or methane instead of molten rock, as seen on Enceladus, a moon of Saturn. The most extreme example is sulfur-rich volcanism driven by tidal heating on Io, making it the most volcanically active body in the Solar System. Dr Broz has been a researcher at the Institute of Geophysics of the Czech Academy of Sciences since 2010, focusing on volcanism across the Solar System, with his primary research interest being volcanic features on Mars.

Please note later start time.

This is a joint lecture with Wessex Astronomical Society