Topography of Mars Topography of Mars Amazonis Planitia is one of the smoothest plains on Mars. It is located between the Tharsis and Elysium volcanic provinces to the west of Olympus Mons in the Valles Marineris region of the Memnonia quadrangle. Its topography exhibits extremely smooth features at several different lengths of scale. ** ...more on Wikipedia about "Amazonis Planitia"
Cerberus Hemisphere is a part of Mars' geography and refers to the area approximately of Latitude: 20° South to 55° North and Longitude: 150° to 230°. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cerberus Hemisphere"
Elysium Planitia is the second largest volcanic region on Mars. ...more on Wikipedia about "Elysium Planitia"
Ma'adim Vallis is one of the largest canyons on Mars, about 700 kilometers long and significantly larger than Earth's Grand Canyon. It is over 20 kilometers wide and 2 kilometers deep in some places. It runs from a region of southern lowlands thought to have once contained a large group of lakes north to Gusev crater near the equator. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ma'adim Vallis"
Mangala Vallis is a complex system of criss-crossing channels on Mars located in the Tharsis region originating in the Amazonian epoch. "Mangala" comes from the word for Mars in Sanskrit. The channels were likely carved by water many thousands of years in the past and lack tributaries. There are many wind-sculpted ridges or yardangs covering many of the surfaces in the Mangala Vallis region. ** ** ...more on Wikipedia about "Mangala Vallis"
Memnonia quadrangle is a region of Mars that covers Latitude -35° to 35° and Longitute 210° to 150°. Mangala Vallis is located in the upland region of Memnonia. The western part of Memnonia is a highly cratered highland region that exhibits a large range of crater degradation. ...more on Wikipedia about "Memnonia"
Utopia Planitia is the Martian location where the Viking 2 Mars lander arrived and first explored on September 3, 1976. The lander's Camera 1 provided a photograph of the landing site (seen at right), which was later given the following caption: ...more on Wikipedia about "Utopia Planitia" It's time to think about http://www.shortopedia.com.
Valles Marineris ( Latin for Mariner Valley, named after the Mariner 9 Mars orbiter of 1971-72 which discovered it.) is a vast canyon system that runs along the Martian equator just east of the Tharsis region. At 4,500 km long, 200 km wide and 11 km deep, the Valles Marineris rift system is ten times longer, seven times wider and seven times deeper than the Grand Canyon of Arizona, making it the largest known crevice in the solar system. ...more on Wikipedia about "Valles Marineris"
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