Uranus Mountain ( lat. and English. Uranius Mons ) is an extinct volcano on Mars , located in the region of Tharsis . The center coordinates are [2] The maximum width of the base is 275 km [1] , and the height is about 6.5 km (in relation to the surrounding plains - 2 km [1] ). Uranus Mountain is part of the group of volcanoes of Uranus and lies east of two smaller volcanoes: the dome of Uranus and the Keravsky dome .
| Uranus Mountain | |
|---|---|
| lat Uranius mons | |
 Uranus Mountain, taken by the Mars Odyssey spacecraft | |
| Specifications | |
| Crater Diameter | 90,000 × 65,000 m |
| Crater depth | 500-2000 m |
| Education period | Hesperian era |
| Highest point | |
| Absolute height | about 6500 [1] m |
| Relative height | 2000 m |
| Location | |
| Heavenly body | Mars |
| Mountain system | Uranus Volcano Group |
The slopes of Mount Uranus are formed by radial frozen lava flows. The slope of these slopes reaches 7 °. The large caldera (90 × 65 km) is stretched from the northeast to the southwest. Its edges rise above the bottom by 0.5–2 km [1] .
On the slopes and in the caldera of Mount Uranus, many small impact craters are visible. According to their concentration, the age of this mountain (as well as other volcanoes of the Uranus group) is defined as late Hesperian [1] .
A large number of extinct volcanoes are concentrated in the province of Farsida . For example, the extinct volcano Olympus , whose height is approximately 26.2 km, is the largest mountain known in the solar system .
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The caldera of the Uranus mountain - the patera of Uranus [3] ( lat. Uranius Patera ) - was named before the mountain itself: it was approved by the International Astronomical Union in 1973 [4] . The mountain was named Uranius Mons only in 2007 [4] . These relief details inherited the name of the Uranius albedo detail discovered during ground-based observations as early as the 19th century [5] .
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The Uranus Dome (upper) and Keravsky Dome (lower), captured by the Mars Global Surveyor in March 2002 [6]
Uranus Volcano Group
See also
- Olympus (Mars)
- Uranus Dome
- Keravin dome
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 Plescia JB Geology of Uranius Patera, Mars (unknown) // 30th Annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, March 15-29, 1999, Houston, TX, abstract no. 1638. - 1999. - .
- ↑ Uranius Mons . Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature . International Astronomical Union (IAU) Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN) (June 27, 2008). Date of treatment March 30, 2013. Archived April 10, 2013.
- ↑ Nomenclature of the details of the relief of Mars, 1981 , p. 61.
- ↑ 1 2 Uranius Patera . Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature . International Astronomical Union (IAU) Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN) (September 19, 2007). Date of treatment March 30, 2013. Archived April 10, 2013.
- ↑ Antoniadi EM The Planet Mars = La planète Mars. - Chatham: Keith Reid Limited, 1975 (trans. Ed. 1930). - P. 229. - 333 p. - ISBN 0904094146 .
- ↑ NASA JPL Malin Space Science Systems - 18 avril 2002
Literature
- Burba G. A. Nomenclature of the details of the relief of Mars / Otv. ed. K.P. Florensky and Yu. I. Efremov. - Moscow: Science, 1981. - 87 p.