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Frosted terrain on Utopia Planitia, taken by the Viking 2 lander in 1979. Utopia Planitia (Greek and Latin: "Utopia Land Plain") is a large plain [2] within Utopia, the largest recognized impact basin on Mars [a] and in the Solar System with an estimated diameter of 3,300 km (2,100 mi). [1]
Surviving Mars is a city building survival video game initially developed by the Bulgarian studio Haemimont Games, and later by Abstraction Games, and published by Paradox Interactive. It was released on Microsoft Windows , macOS , Linux , PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on March 15, 2018.
On Mars, mud volcanoes have an average diameter of ~1 km and a relief of 10 to 180 meters. Their higher albedo is a result of more crystalline iron oxides than the rest of Acidalia Planitia. [ 8 ] Mud volcanoes erupt sediments from deep beneath the surface and change the rising rocks very minimally.
This is a list of plains on Mars. Such features are named after the nearest classical albedo feature in compliance with the International Astronomical Union 's rules of planetary nomenclature . Plains may be named denoted " planitia " or "planum", depending on height.
Location of Elysium Plantia on Mars. Elysium Planitia, located in the Elysium and Aeolis quadrangles, is a broad plain that straddles the equator of Mars, centered at It lies to the south of the volcanic province of Elysium, the second largest volcanic region on the planet, after Tharsis.
In the 2011 novel The Martian by Andy Weir, and the 2015 feature film adapted from it, Schiaparelli is the landing site for Ares 4, the fourth crewed mission to Mars. The protagonist, Mark Watney, an astronaut from Ares 3 who is stranded on Mars, must travel from Acidalia Planitia to Schiaparelli, a journey of 3,200 kilometres (2,000 mi).
It is one of the lowest regions on Mars (2 to 3 kilometres (1.2 to 1.9 mi) below the mean surface elevation of Mars), so water would tend to flow into it [3] The elevation generally goes down from the Tharsis Ridge to Chryse. Kasei Valles, Maja Valles, and Nanedi Valles appear to run from high areas (Tharsis Ridge) to Chryse Planitia. On the ...
The Athabasca Valles are a late Amazonian-period outflow channel system in the central Elysium Planitia region of Mars, located to the south of the Elysium Rise.They are part of a network of outflow channels in this region that are understood to emanate from large fissures in the Martian surface rather than the chaos terrains that source the circum-Chryse outflow channels. [1]