Thaumasia (Gradfeld)
The Thaumasia - degree field one of the 30 degree field of Mars . They were established by the United States Geological Survey ( USGS ). The number is MC-25, the degree field covers the area from 60 ° to 120 ° west longitude and from −65 ° to −30 ° south latitude .
The name comes from the name for Thaumas , the god of clouds.
Other degree fields
Web links
Commons : Thaumasia - collection of images, videos and audio files
- DLR: Changing Martian landscape in Coracis Fossae August 10, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thaumasia in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- ↑ 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.