This is a list of all named mountains on
Mars
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and the second-smallest planet in the Solar System, only being larger than Mercury (planet), Mercury. In the English language, Mars is named for the Mars (mythology), Roman god of war. Mars is a terr ...
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Most mountains have a name including one of the following elements:
* ''
Mons
Mons (; German and nl, Bergen, ; Walloon and pcd, Mont) is a city and municipality of Wallonia, and the capital of the province of Hainaut, Belgium.
Mons was made into a fortified city by Count Baldwin IV of Hainaut in the 12th century. T ...
'': a large, isolated, mountain.
* ''Montes'', plural of ''mons'': a mountain range.
* ''
Tholus
In planetary nomenclature, a tholus (pl. tholi ) is a small domical mountain or hill. The word is from the Greek θόλος, ''tholos'' (pl. ''tholoi''), which means a circular building with a conical or vaulted roof. The Romans transliterated th ...
'': a small dome-shaped mountain.
* ''Tholi'', plural of ''tholus'': a group of (usually not contiguous) small mountains.
* ''Dorsa'', plural of ''
dorsum'': a long low range. Not included.
See also
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List of craters on Mars
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This is a list of craters on Mars. Impact craters on Mars larger than exist by the hundreds of thousands, but only about one thousand of them have names. Names are assigned by the International Astronomical Union after petitioning by ...
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List of mountains on Mars by height
This is a list of mountains on Mars by elevation, the vertical position relative to the areoid, which is the Martian vertical datum (the surface defined as zero elevation by average martian atmospheric pressure and planet radius). Elevation is ''n ...
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List of tallest mountains in the Solar System
This is a list of the tallest mountains in the Solar System. This list includes peaks on all celestial bodies where significant mountains have been detected. For some celestial bodies, different peaks are given across different types of measure ...
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Mineralogy of Mars
The mineralogy of Mars is the chemical composition of rocks and soil that encompass the surface of Mars. Various orbital crafts have used spectroscopic methods to identify the signature of some minerals. The planetary landers performed concrete ...
References
External links
Mars features database distributed with xephem v3.3(Warning, it uses West coordinates, and table should be in East coordinates)
IAU, USGS: Martian system nomenclatureIAU, USGS: Mars nomenclature: mountains (planetocentric east longitude)IAU, USGS: Mars nomenclature: tholus (planetocentric east longitude)Peter Grego, Mars and how to Observe it(List of elevations of named Martian mountains)
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Mars
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and the second-smallest planet in the Solar System, only being larger than Mercury (planet), Mercury. In the English language, Mars is named for the Mars (mythology), Roman god of war. Mars is a terr ...
Surface features of Mars