3D print Arsia Mons on Mars
One of the great Tharsis volcanoes on one print: the broad shield of Arsia Mons and its huge summit caldera, from Mars elevation data.
Where it is 8.26°S 120.09°W Mars
- Height
- Almost 20 km (12 mi), per NASA THEMIS
- Width
- About 450 km (280 mi)
- Summit caldera
- 120 km (75 mi) across
- Neighbors
- Pavonis Mons and Ascraeus Mons
601 by 599 km of Mars, 160 mm across
About Arsia Mons
Arsia Mons is the southernmost of the three Tharsis Montes, a row of giant volcanoes on Mars. NASA's THEMIS team gives it a height of almost 20 km (12 mi) and a width of 450 km (280 mi), and its summit caldera, the collapsed crater at the top, is 120 km (75 mi) across.
The three volcanoes are each more than 10 km (6 mi) high and line up over more than 1,000 km (620 mi) from northeast to southwest on the Tharsis bulge, which itself rises almost 5 km (3 mi) above the terrain around it. Their names come from features on old telescope maps of Mars.
Sources: IAU Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature: Arsia Mons, NASA THEMIS: Arsia Mons, DLR: Tharsis Montes
