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Name Coordinates Length (km) Namesake Notes Abus Vallis: 58.0: Classical name for Humber River: Al-Qahira Vallis: 555.0: Word for "Mars" in Arabic: Allegheny Vallis: 200.0: Allegheny River
Location – Name of launch site (sometimes also province etc.) Coordinates – geographical coordinates; Operational date – the period of years of launch activities; Number of rocket launches – the total number of launches, including failed launches; Heaviest rocket launched – total mass at lift-off
The Elysium province is at the upper right edge. Areas north of the dichotomy boundary appear as shades of blue on both maps. The northern and southern hemispheres of Mars are strikingly different from each other in topography and physiography. This dichotomy is a fundamental global geologic feature of the planet. The northern part is an ...
Valles Marineris (/ ˈ v æ l ɪ s m ær ɪ ˈ n ɛər ɪ s /; [1] Latin for Mariner Valleys, named after the Mariner 9 Mars orbiter of 1971–72 which discovered it) is a system of canyons that runs along the Martian surface east of the Tharsis region. [2]
The maps below were produced by the Mars Global Surveyor ' s Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter; redder colors indicate higher elevations.The maps of the equatorial quadrangles use a Mercator projection, while those of the mid-latitude quadrangles use a Lambert conformal conic projection, and the maps of the polar quadrangles use a polar stereographic projection.
[3] [4] [5] Each name reflects the coincidental (somewhat arbitrary) fact that the plain straddles the prime meridian for the system of longitude lines introduced for east/west Mars mapping. The area covered by the detected surface hematite is around 150,000 km 2 , [ 5 ] i.e., larger than Lake Superior (82,000 km 2 (32,000 sq mi)) in North America.
The east includes Isidis basin and the west and north includes heavily cratered highlands. The Syrtis Major quadrangle is one of a series of 30 quadrangle maps of Mars used by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) Astrogeology Research Program. The Syrtis Major quadrangle is also referred to as MC-13 (Mars Chart-13). [1]
Interactive image map of the global topography of Mars. Hover your mouse over the image to see the names of over 60 prominent geographic features, and click to link to them. Coloring of the base map indicates relative elevations , based on data from the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter on NASA's Mars Global Surveyor .