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Rheasilvia /ˌriːəˈsɪlviə/ 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...
- 500-kilometre (311 mi)-wide
Rheasilvia,
centered near the
south pole; and the 400 km (249 mi) wide Veneneia. The
Rheasilvia impact basin is
younger and...
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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...
- volcano, its
tallest planetary mountain, and is
approximately tied with
Rheasilvia on
Vesta as the
tallest mountain currently discovered in the
Solar System...
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Rheasilvia and
Veneneia are 95% and 75% of the mean
diameter of Vesta, 529 km. However...
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Olympus Mons, the
tallest mountain on any
planet in the
Solar System Rheasilvia crater's
central peak, the
tallest mountain in the
Solar System Peaks...
- the
Solar System; the only
known mountain which might be
taller is the
Rheasilvia peak on the
asteroid Vesta, at 20–25 km (12–16 mi). The
dichotomy of Martian...
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around the
Rheasilvia impact basin. As such,
early hypotheses of the
origin of
Divalia Fossae have
invoked the
impact event that
created Rheasilvia, with energy...
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minerals such as olivine.
Aside from the
large crater at its
southern pole,
Rheasilvia,
Vesta also has an
ellipsoidal shape.
Vesta is the
parent body of the...
- Mittlefehldt, D. W.; Le Corre, L.; et al. (December 2014). "Imprint of the
Rheasilvia impact on
Vesta –
Geologic mapping of
quadrangles Gegania and Lucaria"...
