Lycus Sulci to the northwest of the Olympus Mons volcano
Lycus Sulci to the northwest of the Olympus Mons volcano
During the landslides, huge rock masses broke off and slid from the lower slopes of the shield volcano over hundreds of kilometres onto the surrounding volcanic plains. The hills and ridges are covered with fine dust. Individual lobes of the aureole can be several hundred metres thick. Where they overlap, as in the left part of this image, they reach a thickness of more than 2000 metres.
