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Tharsis Montes
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Tharsis Montes
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Tharsis Montes book
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2000
Imprint CRC Press
Pages 1
eBook ISBN 9781003220435
ABSTRACT
The official name of the region on Mars known as the Tharsis Ridge or Tharsis Bulge, a large raised area in the northern hemisphere of Mars, centered at 2.8 °N, 113.3 °W. It takes its name from the ancient Spanish town known formerly as Tartessus. Tharsis is a large uplifted area, measuring 2105 km across at its greatest dimension, which contains the planet's most prominent volcanoes