Sif Mons
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A large shield volcano in western Eistla Regio on Venus
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Sif Mons is a large shield volcano in western Eistla Regio, a Venusian highland region. Its main volcanic structure has a 40-kilometre-wide summit caldera and an outer apron of lava flows 1,200 kilometres in diameter. The volcano rises about 2 kilometres from its base. Candidate eruptions in 1990 and 1992 make it one of the few extraterrestrial volcanoes with observed signs of ongoing volcanic activity. It was named for the Norse goddess Sif.
- Location
- Western Eistla Regio, Venus
- Summit caldera
- 40 kilometres wide
- Candidate eruptions
- 1990 and 1992
Sources and credits
Sources and credits
- Article
- Sif Mons (English Wikipedia)
- Wikidata
- Q1476871
- Text
- Card text is adapted from the English Wikipedia article by an automated summary. Wikipedia content is available under CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for its contributors. CC BY-SA 4.0 · Article history and contributors
- Illustration
- By JPL/NASA. Public domain · File page on Wikimedia CommonsJPL/NASA, http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00108Modifications: Resized and converted to WebP
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