Aureum chaos
| Chaotic terrain on Mars | ||
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| Aureum chaos | ||
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| Aureum Chaos, recorded by THEMIS . | ||
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| position | 4 ° 24 ' N , 27 ° 0' E | |
| region | Margaritifer Sinus -Gradfeld | |
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| Named after | Based on "Aurea Cherso" | |
Aureum Chaos is a chaotic region in the Margaritifer Sinus - Gradfeld of the planet Mars .
It was named after an albedo feature and measures 351 km in diameter. The name was given by Giovanni Schiaparelli , who was also called "Father of Mars". He used "Aurea Cherso", which means golden peninsula , the ancient name for the Malay Peninsula . Aureum is also the Latin word for gold .
In many areas the canyons are a little more than a kilometer deep, a little more than half the depth of the "earthly" Grand Canyon . However, Aureum Chaos is about the size of the state of Alabama , roughly 20 times the size of Grand Canyon National Park . There are large canals that are believed to have been outflows of groundwater . Most of the canals start in chaotic terrain where the ground has already collapsed. Blocks of undestroyed material can also be seen in these areas. The OMEGA experiment on the Mars Express spacecraft shows different layered silicates in different locations of Aureum Chaos. In order to form these clay minerals , large amounts of water must have existed.
Web links
- The mesas of Aureum Chaos (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Aureum Chaos in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- ^ T. MacDonald: The Origins of Martian Nomenclature . In: Icarus , Vol. 15 (1971), pp. 233-240, ISSN 0019-1035
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2011 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 4 ° 24 ′ 0 ″ N , 27 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ E