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The four main mountain ranges of Venus are named Akna Montes, Danu Montes, Freyja Montes, and Maxwell Montes. These are found on Ishtar Terra. Mountain ranges are formed by the folding and buckling of a planet's crust. The mountain ranges of Venus, like those of the Earth, are characterized by many parallel folds and faults. The presence of ...
Topographic radar image view of Venus, with Ishtar Terra near center. Ishtar Terra / ˈ ɪ ʃ t ɑːr ˈ t ɛr ə / [1] is the second largest of the three continental terrae regions on the planet Venus, the others being Aphrodite Terra and Lada Terra. It is a highland region named after the Akkadian goddess Ishtar, [2] and is found in the north ...
Located on Ishtar Terra, the more northern of the planet's two major highlands, Maxwell Montes is 11 kilometres (36,000 ft) high. [1] It rises about 6.4 kilometers above and to the east (21,000 ft above, and 4 miles (6.44 km) to the east) of Lakshmi Planum, and is about 853 kilometres (530 mi) long by 700 kilometres (435 mi) wide. [1]
Akna Montes are a mountain range on Venus centered at 68.9°N, 318.2°E and stretching 830 km long. The Akna range is a north–south trending ridge belt that forms the western border of the elevated smooth plateau of Lakshmi Planum. The Lakshmi plateau plains are formed by extensive volcanic eruptions and are bounded by mountain chains on all ...
Perspective rendering of Ishtar Terra, at the center of the image is Maxwell Montes, according to its elevation in red and its peaks like Skadi Mons in white. Skadi Mons / ˈ s k ɑː ð i ˈ m ɒ n z / is a mountain on Venus in Maxwell Montes, at the center of Ishtar Terra. It is the highest point on the planet, with an altitude of about ...
Audrey Fualaau, the daughter of controversial couple Mary Kay Letourneau and Vili Fualaau, is pregnant. Taking to social media, Audrey, 27, shared the news she was expecting her first child with ...
Perspective view of Ishtar Terra showing the mountain belt (mb) units with Akna Montes and Freyja Montes along the western and northwestern edge of Lakshmi Planum, and Maxwell Montes along its eastern edge . The mountain belts unit is the only real mountain range on Venus in the area surrounding Lakshmi Planum, which covers only 1.3 x 10 6 km 2 ...
John Stamos almost put the mean in green.. The actor, 61, revealed on the Dec. 23 episode of the ‘Tis The Grinch Holiday Podcast that he auditioned to play the Grinch in the 2000 Christmas ...