Casius (Gradfeld)

The Casius - degree field one of the 30 degree field of Mars . They were established by the United States Geological Survey ( USGS ). The number is MC-6, the degree field covers the area from 240 ° to 360 ° west longitude and from 30 ° to 65 ° south latitude .

origin of the name

The name comes from an albedo feature in the area of 40 ° N and 100 ° E on Mars, the area was named after the Latin epithet for Zeus of his sanctuaries in Egypt and Syria . The name was established in 1958 by the IAU .

geography

The Gradfeld contains parts of Utopia Planitia and a small part of Terra Sabaea . It measures approx. 3,065 km in height and 1,500 km in width, the north / south distance is approx. 2,050 km, a little less than the length of Greenland . It covers an area of approximately 4.9 million km² , about 3% of the surface of Mars. Ground ice is suspected in the higher areas.

Other degree fields

Web links

Commons : Casius - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Davies, ME; Batson, RM; Wu, SSC “Geodesy and Cartography” in Kieffer, HH; Jakosky, BM; Snyder, CW; Matthews, MS, Eds. Mars. University of Arizona Press: Tucson, 1992.
^ Casius in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
↑ Distances calculated using NASA World Wind measuring tool. http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/ .
↑ Approximated by integrating latitudinal strips with area of R ^ 2 (L1-L2) (cos (A) dA) from 30 ° to 65 ° latitude; where R = 3889 km, A is latitude, and angles expressed in radians. See: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1340223/calculating-area-enclosed-by-arbitrary-polygon-on-earths-surface .
↑ Mangold, N. 2005. High latitude paterned grounds on Mars: Classification, distribution and climatic control. Icarus. 174-336-359.
↑ http://hiroc.lpl.arizona.edu/images/PSP/diafotizo.php?ID=PSP_002296_1215
↑ Oliver Morton: Mapping Mars: Science, Imagination, and the Birth of a World . Picador USA, New York 2002, ISBN 0-312-24551-3 , p. 98.
↑ PIA03467: The MGS MOC Wide Angle Map of Mars photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov, February 16, 2002
↑ Davies, ME; Batson, RM; Wu, SSC "Geodesy and Cartography" in Kieffer, HH; Jakosky, BM; Snyder, CW; Matthews, MS, Eds. Mars. University of Arizona Press: Tucson, 1992.

[1] Davies, ME; Batson, RM; Wu, SSC “Geodesy and Cartography” in Kieffer, HH; Jakosky, BM; Snyder, CW; Matthews, MS, Eds. Mars. University of Arizona Press: Tucson, 1992.

[2] Casius in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS

[3] Distances calculated using NASA World Wind measuring tool. http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/ .

[4] Approximated by integrating latitudinal strips with area of R ^ 2 (L1-L2) (cos (A) dA) from 30 ° to 65 ° latitude; where R = 3889 km, A is latitude, and angles expressed in radians. See: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1340223/calculating-area-enclosed-by-arbitrary-polygon-on-earths-surface .

[5] Mangold, N. 2005. High latitude paterned grounds on Mars: Classification, distribution and climatic control. Icarus. 174-336-359.

[6] ttp://hiroc.lpl.arizona.edu/images/PSP/diafotizo.php?ID=PSP_002296_1215

[mapping_mars-7] Oliver Morton: Mapping Mars: Science, Imagination, and the Birth of a World . Picador USA, New York 2002, ISBN 0-312-24551-3 , p. 98.

[8] PIA03467: The MGS MOC Wide Angle Map of Mars photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov, February 16, 2002

[9] Davies, ME; Batson, RM; Wu, SSC "Geodesy and Cartography" in Kieffer, HH; Jakosky, BM; Snyder, CW; Matthews, MS, Eds. Mars. University of Arizona Press: Tucson, 1992.