Shows the elevation of the martian landscape.

red = hill, blue = valley

the big blue crater at 60°E, 45°S is probably an old impact crater from an asteroid and is 4 km deep!

The highest mountain on Mars is olympus mons at 20°N, 130°W with an altitude of 21 km above planet-wide average.

Source: NASA, Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter

Also we have a whole Mars community here: !mars@discuss.tchncs.de
In case you want to know more about the planet, please feel free to ask :)

  • cattywampas@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    12 days ago

    Fun fact, Olympus Mons is so wide and its slope so gradual that you would never be able to see the whole thing from a distance and would scarcely even know you were walking uphill were you to climb it.

    • starlinguk@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      12 days ago

      I bet a participant in the tour de, er, Mars would notice. It’s what’s called a “vals plat” in Dutch, a stretch that seems flat but is surprisingly hard to cycle on.