List of mountains on Mars
- List of mountains on Mars
This is a list of all named mountains on Mars.
* Mons refers to a large, isolated, mountain.
* Montes is the plural of mons and refers a mountain range.
* Tholus refers to a small dome-shaped mountain.
* Tholi is the plural of tholus and refers to a group of (usually not contiguous) small mountains.
* Dorsa refers to hills, and a single hill is a dorsum.
ee also
* List of craters on Mars
* List of mountains on Mars by height
External links
* [http://stuff.mit.edu/afs/athena/project/xephem/lib/auxil/mars_db Mars features database distributed with xephem v3.3]
* [http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/mars/marssysTOC.html USGS: Martian system nomenclature]
* [http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/mare/maremons.html USGS: Mars nomenclature: mountains (planetocentric east longitude)]
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