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Olympus Mons Topographical Map
Minsex
:
Olympus Mons
color-coded according to height from white (highest) to blue (lowest), based on images captured by the
High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC)
on board
ESA
's
Mars Express
. New data (see
M. Beuthe et al., 2012
) find that
Olympus Mons
is built on a rigid
lithosphere
whereas the nearby
Tharsis Montes
partially sank into a less rigid lithosphere, suggesting that there were large spatial variations in the heat flux from the
mantle
at the time of their formation. Photo credit:
ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum)
, Note: For more information, see
Mars Express Explores the Roots of Martian Volcanoes
.
Source: Minsex
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