Tharsis (Gradfeld)

The Tharsis - degree field one of the 30 degree field of Mars . They were established by the United States Geological Survey ( USGS ). The number is MC-9, the degree field covers the area from 90 ° to 135 ° west longitude and from 0 ° to 30 ° south latitude .

The name comes from an albedo feature on Mars, the area was named after the Spanish city of Tartessus . The field contains most of the Tharsis plateau, it is about as high as Mount Everest and about the size of Europe . There are several volcanoes, u. a. the Olympus Mons , the largest volcano in the solar system .

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Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ Tharsis in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
↑ WK Hartmann: A Traveller's Guide to Mars: The Mysterious Landscapes of the Red Planet . Workman, New York January 2011, ISBN 978-0-7611-2606-5 .
↑ 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] Tharsis in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS

[2] WK Hartmann: A Traveller's Guide to Mars: The Mysterious Landscapes of the Red Planet . Workman, New York January 2011, ISBN 978-0-7611-2606-5 .

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

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

[5] 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.