Caloris Montes

The Caloris Montes ( from the Latin mountains of heat, heat) is the name of a mountain range on Mercury. Its hills and valleys extend over more than 1000 km north-east of the edge of the Caloris Planitia, the largest impact crater on Mercury. They consist of numerous regularly arranged mountain ranges that run generally from the center of the crater from radial. Your summits are 1 and 2 km high and about 10 up to 50 km wide. The surface of the mountain slopes is rugged.

The structure of the Caloris Montes is comparable with that of the so-called Mare Imbrium. It is believed that this type of regular structure created by other impacts that the impact that created the crater of the Caloris Planitia, followed.

In the southeast of the mountain a gap exists in the rock, whose origin is still unclear.

• Surface structure on Mercury
• Extraterrestrial Mountains