Mountains, volcanoes and craters

The extraordinary features that dominate the surface of Venus

Maxwell Montes Maxwell Montes is the tallest mountain range on Venus, reaching 11 kilometres (6.8 miles) above the mean planetary radius. By comparison, the tallest mountain on Earth, Mount Everest, is 8.8 kilometres (5.5 miles) tall. Although this is a computergenerated image, it was formed using data from the Magellan spacecraft. The arachnoids Spider-web like formations crawl across the surface of Venus. Arachnoids are formations of unknown origin that look like concentric circles of cracked crust. They can cover as much as 200 kilometres (124 miles). Mead Crater A crater almost as big as the largest crater on Earth. Mead Crater, named after anthropologist Margaret Mead, is the largest impact crater on Venus’s surface. It’s 280 kilometres (170 miles) wide, just 20 kilometres shy of Earth’s widest crater Vredfort. It…

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