3D print Elysium Mons on Mars
The biggest volcano of the Elysium rise on one print: the broad cone of Elysium Mons and the plains around it, from Mars elevation data.
Where it is 25.02°N 147.21°E Mars
- Height
- About 12.6 km (7.8 mi) above the plains
- Summit
- About 16 km (9.9 mi) above the Mars datum
- Width
- About 400 km (250 mi)
- Neighbors
- Hecates Tholus and Albor Tholus
550 by 533 km of Mars, 160 mm across
About Elysium Mons
Elysium Mons is the largest of three volcanoes on the Elysium rise of Mars, with Hecates Tholus to the north and Albor Tholus to the south. NASA puts it about 12.6 km (7.8 mi) tall, and a Mars Global Surveyor release adds that its summit is about 16 km (9.9 mi) above the Mars datum, the planet's reference level.
It is about 400 km (250 mi) across. The name comes from Elysium, a feature on old telescope maps of Mars named for the home of the blessed at the western edge of the world in Greek myth.
Sources: IAU Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature: Elysium Mons, NASA: Elysium Mons, NASA: Elysium Mons from Mars Global Surveyor
