The hypsometric curve of Mars

Details The hypsometric curve of Mars The hypsometric curve of Mars

Apr 1980

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(Laboratorio di Astrofisica Spaziale di Frascati, European Workshop on Planetary Sciences, Rome, Italy, Apr. 23-27, 1979.) Moon

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Hypsography, Mars Surface, Planetary Evolution, Earth Surface, Images, Lunar Surface, Planetary Crusts, Solid State Devices, Topography

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For the construction of the hypsometric curve of Mars the topographic map of the planet produced by the U.S.G.S. has been utilized. All the areas delimited by isolines and geographic grid have been measured, then summing all the contributions given by the areas included between the same isolines. Such measurements have been effected by means of a solid-state optical image analyzer. A comparative study of the hypsometric curves of the earth and the moon shows that, on Mars, several processes of vertical differentiation of the crust started, but did not develop completely owing to the exhaustion of the endogenic forces which determine the surficial dynamics of a planet. A model of the evolution of the Martian crust is discussed in order to justify the shape of the hypsometric curve.

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