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      Tharsis Montes

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      BookEncyclopedia of Astronomy & Astrophysics

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      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2000
      Imprint CRC Press
      Pages 1
      eBook ISBN 9781003220435
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      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

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