Skadi Mons

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Skadi Mons
Map of Maxwell Montes with Skadi Mons labeled
Feature typeMountain
LocationCentral Ishtar Terra, Venus
Coordinates64°N 4°E / 64°N 4°E / 64; 4[1]
Peak
  • 6.4 km (4.0 mi) 20,997 ft (6,400 m)
  • 10.7 km (6.6 mi) 35,105 ft (10,700 m) above mean.
EponymSkadi
Perspective rendering of Ishtar Terra, at the center of the image is Maxwell Montes, according to its elevation in red and its peaks like Skadi Mons in white.

Skadi Mons /ˈskɑːði ˈmɒnz/ is a mountain on Venus in Maxwell Montes, at the center of Ishtar Terra. It is the highest point on the planet,[2] with an altitude of about 10,700 meters (about 35,000 feet) above the mean planetary radius.[3]

As the highest mountain of the Maxwell Montes and Venus altogether it is the coolest (about 380 °C or 716 °F) and least pressurised (about 45 bar or 44 atm) location on the surface of Venus.[4][5]

It is named after Skaði, the norse goddess of skiing (Öndurdís).[6] The word means "damage" or "shadow", being related to the name Scandinavia and maybe the underworld.[7]

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References

  1. ^ "Skadi Mons". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. USGS Astrogeology Research Program.
  2. ^ Beall, Abigail (2020-01-16). "Race to Venus: What we'll discover on Earth's toxic twin". BBC Science Focus Magazine. Retrieved 2025-03-13.
  3. ^ Warren, Haygen (2021-07-14). "Previewing EnVision: ESA's newest mission to Venus". NASASpaceFlight.com. Retrieved 2025-03-13.
  4. ^ Basilevsky A. T., Head J. W. (2003). "The surface of Venus". Reports on Progress in Physics. 66 (10): 1699–1734. Bibcode:2003RPPh...66.1699B. doi:10.1088/0034-4885/66/10/R04.
  5. ^ McGill G. E.; Stofan E. R.; Smrekar S. E. (2010). "Venus tectonics". In T. R. Watters; R. A. Schultz (eds.). Planetary Tectonics. Cambridge University Press. pp. 81–120. ISBN 978-0-521-76573-2. Archived from the original on 2016-06-23. Retrieved 2016-10-16.
  6. ^ "Skadi Mons". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. Archived from the original on 16 September 2019. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
  7. ^ John McKinnell (2005). Meeting the other in Norse myth and legend. Ds Brewer. p. 63. ISBN 978-1-84384-042-8.