Though it is not possible to travel back to the 1800s to once again see and record the actual eruption, a "rebroadcast" of sorts was captured by scientists, about 170 years later, now.
Elon Musk had once famously said that he hopes to nuke the planet in order to make it habitable; however, a new study has concluded that even nuking the Red Planet will not get the job done
The picture has been taken by the space agency's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). It features the "spiders" coming out of the planet's ground at the South Pole.