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Sapas Mons

Target Name:  Venus
Spacecraft:  Magellan
Produced by:  Calvin J. Hamilton
Copyright: © Calvin J. Hamilton
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Sapas Mons is a large volcano approximately 400 kilometers (250 miles) in diameter and 1.5 kilometers (.9 miles) high located on a topographic rise in Atla Regio. The summit consists of two mesas with flat to slightly convex tops and smooth surfaces that appear radar-dark in the image. The sides of the volcano show numerous bright overlapping flows that provide the edifice with a roughly radial outline. Many of the flows appear to be flank eruptions. Radial fractures clearly transect the flows to the east and south. Darker flows in the southeast quadrant are probably smoother than the bright flows closer to the eruptive center.

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