The Nereidum Montes is a
mountain range
A mountain range or hill range is a series of mountains or hills arranged in a line and connected by high ground. A mountain system or mountain belt is a group of mountain ranges with similarity in form, structure, and alignment that have arise ...
on
Mars
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and the second-smallest planet in the Solar System, only being larger than Mercury. In the English language, Mars is named for the Roman god of war. Mars is a terrestrial planet with a thin at ...
. It stretches 1,143 km, northeast of
Argyre Planitia
Argyre Planitia is a plain located within the impact basin Argyre in the southern highlands of Mars. Its name comes from a map produced by Giovanni Schiaparelli in 1877; it refers to Argyre, a mythical island of silver in Greek mythology.
Ar ...
. It is in the
Argyre quadrangle. The mountains are named after a
Classical albedo feature. Nereidum Montes has
gullies
A gully is a landform created by running water, mass movement, or commonly a combination of both eroding sharply into soil or other relatively erodible material, typically on a hillside or in river floodplains or terraces. Gullies resemble lar ...
in some areas.
A hummocky relief resembling
Veiki moraine
A Veiki moraine (Swedish: Veikimorän) is a type of moraine found in northern Sweden, Troms og Finnmark in Norway, and parts of Canada. This moraine is characterized by forming a hummocky landscape of irregular moraine plateaus with elevated rim ...
s has been found in Nereidum Montes. The relief is hypothesized to result very much like Veiki moraines from the melting of a martian glacier.
HiWish program HiWish is a program created by NASA so that anyone can suggest a place for the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to photograph. It was started in January 2010. In the first few months of the program 3000 people signed up to use HiRIS ...
. Image is located in Nereidum Montes. This is the image of the surface from a single HiRISE image. The scale bar at the top is 500 meters long.
Image:Context image for argyrefeatures.JPG, CTX image showing context for the next image. A group of channels are visible in this image. Image is located in Nereidum Montes.
Image:Close-up of Argyrefeatures.JPG, Close-up of surface in Argyre quadrangle, as seen by HiRISE, under the HiWish program. Image is located in Nereidum Montes.
File:ESP 028896 1355gullies.jpg, Gullies in Nereidum Montes, as seen by HiRISE under HiWish program.
File:(ESP 030056 1420) Possible Avalanche in Valley in Nereidum Montes.jpg , Image is located in Nereidum Montes.
ESP 042597 1320layers.jpg, Layers exposed in Nereidum Montes, as seen by HiRISE under HiWish program The light-toned layers may contain sulfates which are good for preserving traces of ancient life.
References
Mountains on Mars
Argyre quadrangle
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