| Caxias | |
The crater Caxias and its surroundings, in a screenshot in NASA World Wind. WorldWind is a free Open source Virtual globe developed by NASA and open source community for use on Personal computers running Microsoft |
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| Coordinates | 29. The "geography" of Mars, also known as areography, entails the delineation and characterization of regions on Mars. 3° S, 100. 8° W |
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| Diameter | 25. Geometry, a diameter of a Circle is any straight Line segment that passes through the center of the circle and whose Endpoints are on the 4 km |
| Eponym | Duque de Caxias |
Caxias is a Martian impact crater, approximately 25 kilometers in diameter. Duque de Caxias is a city in southeast Brazil in Rio de Janeiro, bordered by Rio de Janeiro (city to the south In the broadest sense the term impact crater can be applied to any depression natural or manmade resulting from the high velocity impact of a projectile with larger body It is located at 29. 3°S, 100. 8°W, southeast of the crater Llanesco and northeast of the crater Dinorwic. Llanesco is a Martian impact crater 27 kilometers in diameter Dinorwic is a Martian Impact crater, approximately 56 kilometers in diameter It was named after Duque de Caxias, a town in Brazil, and its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 1991. Duque de Caxias is a city in southeast Brazil in Rio de Janeiro, bordered by Rio de Janeiro (city to the south |utc_offset = -2 to -4 |time_zone_DST = BRST |utc_offset_DST = -2 to -5 |cctld Year 1991 ( MCMXCI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar. [1][2] According to a surface age map of Mars based on US Geological Survey data, the area around Caxias is from the Noachian or Hesperian epoch, which places the area's age at 3. The United States Geological Survey ( USGS) is a scientific agency of the United States government. The geology of Mars, also known as areology (from Greek grc Ἂρης Arēs, " Ares " and grc -λογία -logia The geology of Mars, also known as areology (from Greek grc Ἂρης Arēs, " Ares " and grc -λογία -logia 8 to 1. 8 billion years. [3] The crater is about 7,400 meters in elevation above zero altitude on its floor, and averages about 8,000 meters above zero altitude on its rim; it is therefore about 600 meters in depth. [2]