Environment Around Ceraunius Tholus
Ceraunius Tholus is on the Tharsis rise, also called the Tharsis bulge. Tharsis is a land of great volcanoes. Olympus Mons is the tallest known volcano. Ascraeus Mons and Pavonis Mons are at least 320 km across and are over 10 km above the plateau that they sit on. The plateau is five to four seven kilometers above the zero altitude of Mars.
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Ceraunius Tholus Channel, as seen by HiRISE. The summit crater of Ceraunius Tholus is just to the right of this picture. Click on image to see dark slope streaks. The scale bar is 1000 meters long.
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View of Ceraunius Tholus and Uranius Tholus from the Mars Orbiter Camera of Mars Global Surveyor.
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Computer-generated 3D view of Ceraunius Tholus with 5x vertical exaggeration. The image was obtained from THEMIS coverage plus MOLA altimetry. The crater Rahe is at left.
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