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 Mars
Olympus Mons is found in the Tharsis Montes region near the Martian equator.
Tharsis Montes, also known as the Tharsis Ridge, extends for 2,100 km and varies in height between about 9 km and 11 km above the datum level.
Valles Marineris, however, was created not by running water but by the stretching and cracking of the crust associated with the formation of the Tharsis bulge.
www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/M/Mars.html   (2106 words)

  
 New Evidence of Artificiality at Cydonia on Mars
And several enormous channels emerge from the chaotic terrain east of the Tharsis bulge canyons and extend northward.
Finally, the Tharsis bulge itself takes the form of high-elevation terrain and several huge volcanoes in the Tharsis region at tropical latitudes on Mars.
The present Tharsis bulge, on which may be found the four largest shield volcanoes in the solar system near its central region, was very likely created at just this time.
www.metaresearch.org /solar%20system/cydonia/mrb_cydonia/new-evidence.asp   (6706 words)

  
 Schoolforge News Journal - Mars
The Tharsis bulge centered at the equator at 100 degrees West is 5000 kilometers across and 10 kilometers high.
To the East of Tharsis, south of the equator, canyons are aligned along faults radial to Tharsis.
The tectonics of Mars are dominated by the Tharsis Bulge.
www.opensourceschools.org /article.php?story=20030421045650984   (6137 words)

  
 Mars
Its base is more than 500 km in diameter and is rimmed by a cliff 6 km (20,000 ft) high.
Tharsis: a huge bulge on the Martian surface that is about 4000 km across and 10 km high.
It was formed by the stretching and cracking of the crust associated with the creation of the Tharsis bulge.)
www.seds.org /nineplanets/nineplanets/mars.html   (2231 words)

  
 Edward Bilodeau's Weblog: April 2005
Jafar Arkani-Hamed of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, has determined that these five basins, named Argyre, Hellas, Isidis, Thaumasia, and Utopia, all lie along the arc of a great circle.
This suggests that the projectiles that caused the basins originated with a single source and that the impacts trace the Martian equator at the time of impact, which was prior to the development of the Tharsis bulge, he says.
I was reading The Case for Creative Commons Textbooks and came across these interesting figures on the cost of content development:
bilodeau.blogspot.com /2005_04_01_bilodeau_archive.html   (3692 words)

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