{{short description|Mountain range on Mars}} {{Infobox feature on celestial object |name = Hellas Montes |coordinates = {{coord|37.63|S|97.61|E|globe:mars_type:landmark|display=inline,title}} }}

'''Hellas Montes''' is a [[mountain range]] on the planet [[Mars]]. This group of mountains are located along the western rim of the giant Hellas Basin.<ref name="Outcrops in the Hellas Montes">{{cite web|title=Outcrops in the Hellas Montes|url=http://www.uahirise.org/PSP_006672_1420|publisher=Hirise|access-date=10 November 2012}}</ref> It has a diameter of 153.00&nbsp;km.<ref name="Mars Feature: Mons, montes - Hellas Montes">{{cite web|title=Mars Feature: Mons, montes - Hellas Montes|url=http://itouchmap.com/?r=marsfeatures&z=2994|access-date=10 November 2012}}</ref> This mountain range was approved in 1991.<ref name="Hellas Montes PL">{{cite web|title=Hellas Montes|url=https://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/2431|publisher=Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature|access-date=10 November 2012}}</ref>

To determine the history of major geologic events that shape the Hellas Montes range, research/analysis done in 2006 found tongue-shaped landform in the ranges. Morphologically derived evidence shows these landforms to have originated from volcanic edifice located in the North. Additional analysis suggests that this can also be possibly connected to landslide mechanisms.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Hauber|first1=Ernst|last2=van Gasselt|first2=Stephan|last3=Ivanov|first3=Boris|last4=Werner|first4=Stephanie|last5=Head|first5=James W.|last6=Neukum|first6=Gerhard|last7=Jaumann|first7=Ralf|last8=Greeley|first8=Ronald|last9=Mitchell|first9=Karl L.|last10=Muller|first10=Peter|date=March 2005|title=Discovery of a flank caldera and very young glacial activity at Hecates Tholus, Mars|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature03423|journal=Nature|volume=434|issue=7031|pages=356–361|doi=10.1038/nature03423|pmid=15772654 |bibcode=2005Natur.434..356H |s2cid=4427179 |issn=0028-0836|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

== See also== * [[List of mountains on Mars]]

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== External links == * [https://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/2431 Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature]

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