Hellas Planitia

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 4429. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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The official name for the Hellas Basin, the largest impact feature on Mars and indeed the largest in the solar system, centered at 44.3 °S, 66.2 °W. The inner part of Hellas Planitia is around 2100 km across and is surrounded by a rim 2 km high. At its deepest it is 9 km below Mars's average surface level—the greatest depth on the planet. The outer part of the basin extends for about 4000 km. The...

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