Oblique perspective view of 'Jupiter's Dome'
Oblique perspective view of 'Jupiter's Dome'
With the digital terrain models generated using data acquired by the stereo imaging channels of the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA's Mars Express spacecraft, perspective views of the martian landscape can be created. This image shows a view of the eastern side of the 1500-metre-high Jovis Tholus shield volcano – the 'Dome of Jupiter'. The volcano's 28-kilometre-diameter caldera consists of a total of five craters, suggesting a long period of volcanic activity. The individual calderas are connected to one another, the younger ones in each case having a slightly lower floor, which shows that the ceilings of the magma chambers that used to be below them have collapsed deeper and deeper.
