{{short description|Mountain range on Mars}} {{Infobox feature on celestial object |name = Tartarus Montes |image = [[File:MOLA tartarus montes.jpg|220px]]<br/>[[File:Tartarus Montes.jpg|150px]] |caption = Tartarus Montes |location = Between Orcus Patera and the Elysium volcanic region |coordinates = {{coord|15.46|N|167.54|E|globe:mars_type:landmark|display=inline,title}} }}
The '''Tartarus Montes''' are a [[mountain range]] on the planet [[Mars]], stretching over 1070 km and located around the coordinates 15.46º N, 167.54º E,<ref name="gpn">{{gpn|5875}}</ref> between [[Orcus Patera]] and the [[Elysium (volcanic province)|Elysium]] volcanic region.<ref name="PIA10800: Tartarus Montes">{{cite web|title=PIA10800: Tartarus Montes|url=http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA10800|publisher=Nasa|access-date=31 August 2012|archive-date=22 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210422193152/https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA10800|url-status=live}}</ref>
[[Albedo]] was first identified from the contrast of bright and dark signals photographed by [[Eugène Antoniadi]].
== Etymology == The mountain range was named in 1985. It has been named after Greek deity of the underworld, [[Tartarus]], by the standard [[planetary nomenclature]] for Martian landforms.<ref name="gpn" /> According to Greek myth, Tartarus is the lowest part of [[Hades]]. [[Zeus]] imprisoned the [[Titan (mythology)|Titan]]s in Tartarus. The second part of the name "Montes" means mountains.<ref name="NASA Mars Odyssey THEMIS Image: The Naming of Things: Tartarus Montes">{{cite web|title=NASA Mars Odyssey THEMIS Image: The Naming of Things: Tartarus Montes|url=http://www.marstoday.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=13658|publisher=Mars Today|access-date=31 August 2012|archive-date=28 January 2013|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130128131303/http://www.marstoday.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=13658|url-status=live}}</ref>
== Features == Photographs taken by the [[Mars Global Surveyor]] indicate that there are cones and volcanic rings near the Tartarus Montes.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/PSP_003900_2055 | title=Ring/Cone Structures in the Tartarus Montes/Phlegra Dorsa Region | work=hirise.lpl.arizona.edu | access-date=September 2, 2012 | archive-date=April 25, 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210425130956/https://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/PSP_003900_2055 | url-status=live }}</ref> Narrow grabens and fractures are present around the regions of this mountain range. Both the hilly areas and the intervening plains are cut with similar marks. This implies that there is a widespread tensional fracture system associated with [[Cerberus Fossae]]. At one point, Grjota’ Vallis, an [[outflow channel]], crosses the bedrock ridge of the Tartarus Montes.<ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Plescia | first1 = J. B. | doi = 10.1016/S0019-1035(03)00139-8 | title = Cerberus Fossae, Elysium, Mars: A source for lava and water | journal = Icarus | volume = 164 | pages = 79–95 | year = 2003 | bibcode = 2003Icar..164...79P | url = https://zenodo.org/record/1259599/files/article.pdf | archive-date = 2022-03-26 | access-date = 2019-09-09 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220326093920/https://zenodo.org/record/1259599/files/article.pdf | url-status = live }}</ref>
== See also== * [[List of mountains on Mars]]
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== External links == * [https://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/5875 Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature] {{Mars}} {{Portal bar|Solar System}}
[[Category:Mountain ranges on Mars]]