The elevation of mountains are given in feet above sea level and the depths of the ocean are expressed in feet below sea level. On Mars there is no sea level to serve as a reference. Instead a substitute datum is used. This datum is known as the Mars areoid. The Mars areoid ...
Some of the highest mountains in the Solar System are on Mars. NASA and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) want to take the temperature of the planet for the first time ever. They will measure how heat flows out of the planet and affects its amazing geology. What a planet’s surface loo...
Boösaule Montesis a collection of three mountains on Io, a moon of Jupiter, all connected by a raised plain. The mountain termed “South” is the tallest of the three. One side of the mountain has such a steep slope, 40 degrees, that scientists think that it was the site of a hug...
While coast redwoods are the tallest trees on Earth, they are not the largest. The largest trees on the planet are General Sherman and General Grant, giant sequoias that cling to the rocky, fire-scarred Sierras in California's Kings Canyon and Sequoia National Parks. And North America doesn...
Surrounded by lush vegetation and rare butterflies, the San Rafael Waterfall was one of the most captivating landscapes in Ecuador. With water dropping 150 meters (490 feet), the river and falls cut through a thick patch of cloud forest at the intersection of the Andes Mountains and the Amazon...
Bad design and construction and inadequate state oversight led to a disastrous spillway collapse at the nation's tallest dam, an independent team of national dam safety experts said Tuesday.
The tallest mountains on Titan.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/USGS Titan's largest peaks seem to be clustered near the moon's equator, NASA said, and there are other mountains that are similar in height within the Mithrim Montes range and the part of the world called Xanadu...