Gigas Sulci [SEP] located on astronomical body
Gigas Sulci
Gigas Sulci is an area of subparallel furrows and ridges in the Tharsis quadrangle of Mars, located at . It is 398 km across and was named after a classical albedo feature name. The term "sulci" is applied to subparallel furrows and ridges.
goes by different names (Gigas Sulci, for example).The origin of the aureole remains debated, but it was likely formed by huge landslides or gravity-driven thrust sheets that sloughed off the edges of the Olympus Mons shield.
Polygonal patterned ground Erebus Montes.
Westward from Lycus Sulci, across the flat plains of Amazonis Planitia, lies an elongated region of knobby terrain called Erebus Montes (Erebus Mountains). The region contains hundreds of clustered to isolated hillocks that stand 500 to 1,000 m above the surrounding plains. The presence of