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Ishtar Terra is one of the three continental regions on the planet Venus, the others being Aphrodite Terra and Lada Terra. It is a highland region named after the Akkadian goddess
NASA Map of Venus:
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Ishtar Terra is one of the three continental regions on the planet Venus, the others being Aphrodite Terra and Lada Terra. It is a highland region named after the Akkadian goddess Ishtar
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, and is found in the north of the planet. In size, it is roughly between Australia and the contiguous United States, making it the second-largest of the terrae.
On its eastern edge lies the great mountain chain Maxwell Montes, which is about high, compared to Mount Everest at . On one side of the mountain chain is the impact crater
An impact crater is a circular depression in the surface of a solid astronomical object formed by the hypervelocity impact of a smaller object. In contrast to volcanic craters, which result from explosion or internal collapse, impact crater ...
Cleopatra Patera, in diameter filled with lava. Ishtar Terra contains the four main mountain ranges of Venus: Maxwell Montes on the eastern edge, Freyja Montes in the north, Akna Montes on the western edge, and Danu Montes in the southern region. These surround the lower plain of Ishtar Terra, which is named Lakshmi Planum (after the Hindu goddess Lakshmi
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). Ishtar Terra also contains volcano
A volcano is a rupture in the Crust (geology), crust of a Planet#Planetary-mass objects, planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and volcanic gas, gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.
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es named after famous women: Sacajawea and Colette. Ishtar Terra is also the site of many tesserae, made by tectonic deformation.
See also
* Geography of Venus * Note that Ishtar Terra is located near the south pole if Venus's rotation is defined as prograde by the right-hand rule. The rotation of the planet is commonly characterized as retrograde in order to correlate its northern hemisphere with Earth's, in which case Ishtar Terra is near the north pole. This is the convention normally used for maps.References
External links
* *IRISP Research Projects https://web.archive.org/web/20060511172654/http://irsps.sci.unich.it/research/projects/venus/ishtar/ *WPT http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/captions/venus/perspect.htm *Funky Science https://web.archive.org/web/20070318150841/http://www.funkyscience.net/imagebank/channel_ishtar.htmlNASA Map of Venus:
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