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Where is Elysium Mons?
martian eastern hemisphere
Elysium Mons is located at 25°N, 213°W, in the martian eastern hemisphere. Elysium Mons is one of three large volcanoes that occur on the Elysium Rise– the others are Hecates Tholus (northeast of Elysium Mons) and Albor Tholus (southeast of Elysium Mons).
How do you calculate degrees of longitude?
The Earth rotates one full turn (360º of longitude) in one day. It therefore turns one degree of longitude in 1/360th of a day, or every four minutes. To calculate your longitude, you therefore simply need to work out the time difference between noon at your location and noon at the Prime Meridian.
Is Elysium Mons a shield volcano?
The shield volcano Elysium Mons is at center, with the smaller volcanoes Hecates Tholus and Albor Tholus to its upper and lower right, respectively. Elysium, located in the Elysium and Cebrenia quadrangles, is the second largest volcanic region on Mars, after Tharsis.
How tall is Elysium Mons?
It stands about 12.6 km (41,000 ft) above its base, and about 14.1 km (46,000 ft) above the Martian datum, making it the third tallest Martian mountain in terms of relief and the fourth highest in elevation.
What distance is 1 degree of latitude?
about 111 kilometers
One degree of latitude, called an arcdegree, covers about 111 kilometers (69 miles). Because of the Earth’s curvature, the farther the circles are from the Equator, the smaller they are. At the North and South Poles, arcdegrees are simply points. Degrees of latitude are divided into 60 minutes.
Why is Olympus Mons so flat?
The extraordinary size of Olympus Mons is likely because Mars lacks mobile tectonic plates. Unlike on Earth, the crust of Mars remains fixed over a stationary hotspot, and a volcano can continue to discharge lava until it reaches an enormous height.
How old is Olympus Mons on Mars?
3.5 billion years old
Olympus Mons is some 3.5 billion years old, which means the volcano formed early on in Mars’ history. Astronomers suspect Olympus Mons could have stayed volcanically active for hundreds of millions of years. That’s far longer than any volcano on Earth could remain active.
What is the tallest mountain on Mars?
Olympus Mons
Olympus Mons on Mars, is more than twice as tall!
What is the distance between 2 longitudes?
The distance between longitudes at the equator is the same as latitude, roughly 69 miles. At 45 degrees north or south, the distance between is about 49 miles (79 km). The distance between longitudes reaches zero at the poles as the lines of meridian converge at that point.
What Tropic passes through Australia?
The Tropic of Capricorn
The Tropic of Capricorn is the 23.5S and hence it passes through the center of Australia.