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Hellas Planitia

Hellas Planitia /ˈhɛləs pləˈnɪʃiə/ is a plain located within the huge, roughly circular impact basin Hellas located in the southern hemisphere of the planet Mars. Hellas is the fourth or fifth-largest known impact crater in the Solar System. The basin floor is around 7,152 m (23,465 ft) deep, 3,000 m (9,800 ft) deeper than the Moon's South Pole-Aitken…

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Location
Hellas quadrangle, Mars
Age
c. 4 billion years
Diameter
c. 2,300 km (1,400 mi)
Impactor diameter
c. 370 km

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Possible glaciers

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Hellas Planitia

Nodes60
Edges59
Triples51
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.033333
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Hellas Planitia

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related to Description · 15
Hellas Planitia → Borealis Basin, Despite, Hellas, Hellas's, It, Late Heavy Bombardment, Mars, Martian, Moon's South Pole-Aitken, Pa, Solar System, The, This, Utopia Planitia, With
related to Discovery and naming · 12
Hellas Planitia → Antoniadi, Before Giovanni Schiaparelli, Due, Earth, English, Greece, Greek, Hellas, Lockyer Land, Martian, Richard Proctor, Sir Joseph Lockyer
related to Possible glaciers · 9
Hellas Planitia → Advances, Furrows, Mars, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, MRO, Radar, Scientists, SHARAD, The
see also · 7
Hellas Planitia → Argyre PlanitiaAtmosphere, Hellas PlanitiaDuneGale, Mars, MarsGlaciers, MarsGroundwater, MarsList, MarsWater
Age · 1
Hellas Planitia → c. 4 billion years
Coordinates · 1
Hellas Planitia → .mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-pars…
Diameter · 1
Hellas Planitia → c. 2,300 km (1,400 mi)
Impactor diameter · 1
Hellas Planitia → c. 370 km
Location · 1
Hellas Planitia → Hellas quadrangle, Mars

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hellas mars planitia ice features crater basin glaciers km planet floor 23 terrain layers diameter 300 mi water region video

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Hellas PlanitiaAgec. 4 billion years1.00infobox
Hellas PlanitiaCoordinates.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-pars…1.00infobox
Hellas PlanitiaDiameterc. 2,300 km (1,400 mi)1.00infobox
Hellas PlanitiaImpactor diameterc. 370 km1.00infobox
Hellas PlanitiaLocationHellas quadrangle, Mars1.00infobox
Hellas induced global hot rainfallinstance ofThis may be because large Martian impacts0.80text
meltwater flows that degraded crater rimsinstance ofThis may be because large Martian impacts0.80text
including their owninstance ofThis may be because large Martian impacts0.80text
Hellas Planitiarelated to DescriptionWith0.60section
Hellas Planitiarelated to DescriptionUtopia Planitia0.60section
Hellas Planitiarelated to DescriptionBorealis Basin0.60section
Hellas Planitiarelated to DescriptionLate Heavy Bombardment0.60section

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