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This is a list of montes (mountains, singular mons) on the planet Venus. Venusian mountains are all named after goddesses in the mythologies of various cultures, except for the Maxwell Montes . The four main mountain ranges of Venus are named Akna Montes, Danu Montes, Freyja Montes, and Maxwell Montes. These are found on Ishtar Terra .
Lunar: 1,624 craters (31.2%) Venusian: 900 craters (17.3%) Mercurian: 397 craters (7.6%) Martian: 1,092 craters (21.0%) Others: 1,198 craters (23.0%) Distribution of named craters in the Solar System as of 2017. [a] This is a list of craters on Venus, named by the International Astronomical Union's (IAU) Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature. All craters on Venus are named after ...
Ishtar Terra / ˈɪʃtɑːr ˈtɛrə / [ 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, and is found in the north of the planet. Note that Ishtar Terra is located near the negative pole if ...
The origin of the Lakshmi Planum and the mountain belts such as Maxwell Montes is controversial. One theory suggests they formed over a hot plume of material rising from Venus's interior, while another says the region is being compressed (pushed together) from all sides, resulting in material descending into the planet's interior. [5]
Cleopatra (initially called Cleopatra Patera [2]) is an impact crater on Venus, in Maxwell Montes. Cleopatra is a double-ring impact basin about 100 kilometers (62 mi) in diameter and 2.5 kilometers (1.6 mi) deep. A steep-walled, winding channel a few kilometers wide ( Anuket Vallis) breaks through the rough terrain surrounding the crater rim.
Skadi Mons. / 64°N 4°E / 64; 4. 10.7 km (6.6 mi) 35,105 ft (10,700 m) above mean. 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 / ˈskɑːði ˈmɒnz / is a mountain on Venus in Maxwell Montes, at the center of ...
Dorothy Crater is an impact crater on Venus . The names for small craters on Venus (with a diameter less than 20 km) are chosen from common female names. [2] Dorothy is a Greek first name, and the crater was officially designated by the IAU in 1997. The crater is east of Tamfana Corona, and south of Seoritsu Farra. [3]
Global radar map of the surface of Venus. The surface of Venus is dominated by geologic features that include volcanoes, large impact craters, and aeolian erosion and sedimentation landforms. Venus has a topography reflecting its single, strong crustal plate, with a unimodal elevation distribution (over 90% of the surface lies within an ...