List of tallest mountains in the Solar System in the context of 307261 Máni


List of tallest mountains in the Solar System in the context of 307261 Máni

⭐ Core Definition: List of tallest mountains in the Solar System

This is a list of the tallest mountains in the Solar System. This list includes peaks on all celestial bodies where significant mountains have been detected. For some celestial bodies, different peaks are given across different types of measurement. The solar system's tallest mountain is possibly the Olympus Mons on Mars with an altitude of 21.9 to 26 km. The central peak of Rheasilvia on the asteroid Vesta is also a candidate to be the tallest, with an estimated at up to between 19 and 22 km from peak to base.

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👉 List of tallest mountains in the Solar System in the context of 307261 Máni

307261 Máni (provisional designation 2002 MS4) is a large trans-Neptunian object in the Kuiper belt, a region of icy planetesimals beyond Neptune. It was discovered on 18 June 2002 by Chad Trujillo and Michael Brown during their search for Pluto-sized Kuiper belt objects at Palomar Observatory. With a diameter of about 800 km (500 mi), Máni is large enough that some astronomers believe that it might be a dwarf planet.

The surface of Máni is dark gray and is composed of water and carbon dioxide ices. Máni has been observed through stellar occultations, which have revealed massive topographic features along the outline of its shape. These features include a mountain-like peak that is 25 km (16 mi) tall and a crater-like depression that is 320 km (200 mi) wide and 45 km (28 mi) deep. Máni's topographic features are among the tallest and deepest known for Solar System bodies.

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List of tallest mountains in the Solar System in the context of Moons of Saturn

There are 274 known moons of the planet Saturn, the most of any planet in the Solar System. Saturn's moons are diverse in size, ranging from tiny moonlets to Titan, which is larger than the planet Mercury. Three of these moons possess particularly notable features: Titan, Saturn's largest moon (and the second largest moon in the Solar System), has a nitrogen-rich, Earth-like atmosphere and a landscape featuring river networks and hydrocarbon lakes, Enceladus emits jets of ice from its south-polar region and is covered in a deep layer of snow, and Iapetus has contrasting black and white hemispheres as well as an extensive ridge of equatorial mountains which are among the tallest in the solar system.

Twenty-four of the known moons are regular satellites; they have prograde orbits not greatly inclined to Saturn's equatorial plane (except Iapetus, which has a prograde but highly inclined orbit). They include the seven major satellites, four small moons that exist in a trojan orbit with larger moons, and five that act as shepherd moons, of which two are mutually co-orbital. At least two tiny moons orbit inside of Saturn's B and G rings. The relatively large Hyperion is locked in an orbital resonance with Titan. The remaining regular moons orbit near the outer edges of the dense A Ring and the narrow F Ring, and between the major moons Mimas and Enceladus. The regular satellites are traditionally named after Titans and Titanesses or other figures associated with the mythological Saturn.

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List of tallest mountains in the Solar System in the context of Equatorial ridge on Iapetus

Iapetus, Saturn's third-largest moon, has a 20 kilometer (12 mi) equatorial ridge. The ridge runs along most of Iapetus's equator, and is the third tallest mountain structure in the Solar System. First discovered by the Cassini probe in 2004, the ridge's origin is unknown. There are bright areas on the sides of the equatorial ridge near Iapetus' bright trailing hemisphere, which were visible in Voyager 2 and were nicknamed the "Voyager Mountains".

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List of tallest mountains in the Solar System in the context of Rheasilvia

Rheasilvia /ˌrəˈsɪlviə/ is the largest impact crater on the asteroid Vesta. It is 505 km (314 mi) in diameter, which is 90% the diameter of Vesta itself, and is 95% the mean diameter of Vesta, 529 km (329 mi). However, the mean is affected by the crater itself. It is 89% the mean equatorial diameter of 569 km (354 mi), making it one of the largest craters in the Solar System, and at 75°S latitude, covers most of the southern hemisphere. The peak in the center of the crater is 200 km (120 mi) in diameter, and rises 19–22 km (12–14 mi; 62,000–72,000 ft) from its base, making it one of the tallest mountains known in the Solar System.

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