This means the surface of the planet can reach more than 400C.
2003 Nasa's twin Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, explore the surface of the planet for years.
Over the next three years, Tambora cooled the surface of the planet by a degree celsius.
LIFE stands no chance at all on the surface of the planet Mars.
Scientists have long known that carbon dioxide traps heat at the surface of the planet.
It rains sometimes, but the rain never reaches the surface of the planet because down there it's 460C.
Think of it, he says, the sun pours down its energy onto the surface of the planet for millennia.
"Farming is the single largest thing we've done to transform the surface of the planet," Burtynsky told me.
SCRATCH the surface of the planet and the chances that hydrocarbons will spew forth appear to grow by the day.
More pictures are expected to be released in coming weeks – building up a "mosaic" of the surface of the planet.
The ESA's Mars Express, which achieved orbit in 2003, has imaged 95% of the surface of the planet and taken various measurements, hugely expanding our knowledge.
