| Abstract: | Olympus Mons, one of the largest known shield volcanoes in the Solar System, covers an area of >3.2 ?? 105 km2and has a diameter of >600 km, excluding its vast aureole deposits. The structure is five times larger than the largest shield volcano on the Earth. It is situated on the north-west flank of the Tharsis volcanic region, a broad topographic rise on the martian surface. The volcano has three physical subdivisions: the summit caldera, the terraced upper flanks, and the lower flanks, which terminate in a scarp 2-10 km high that nearly surrounds the structure. A large block of images of the Tharsis region, including Olympus Mons, was obtained by the Viking mission1. Here we present a topographic map of Olympus Mons, compiled using various combinations of stereo pairs of these images, together with stereoscopic perspective views generated by image processing techniques. ?? 1984 Nature Publishing Group. |
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| Citation Author: | Wu, S. S. C.; Garcia, P. A.; Jordan, R.; Schafer, F. J.; Skiff, B. A. |
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| Citation Search Results Text: | Topography of the shield volcano, Olympus Mons on Mars; 1984; Article; Journal; Nature; Wu, S. S. C.; Garcia, P. A.; Jordan, R.; Schafer, F. J.; Skiff, B. A. |
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| Citation Year: | 1984 |
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| Text: | Topography of the shield volcano, Olympus Mons on Mars; 1984; Article; Journal; Nature; Wu, S. S. C.; Garcia, P. A.; Jordan, R.; Schafer, F. J.; Skiff, B. A. |
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| URL (DIGITAL OBJECT IDENTIFIER): | http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/309432a0 |
| Date Other: | Sun, 1 Jan 1984 00:00 -0600 |
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