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Skadi Mons
	Skadi Mons in the top right corner of this radar image (bright image area is Maxwell Montes; dark area is Lakshmi Planum)
Feature type	Mountain
Location	Venus
Coordinates	64°N 4°E / 64°N 4°ECoordinates: 64°N 4°E / 64°N 4°E
Peak	6.4 km (4.0 mi) 20,997 ft (6,400 m); 10.7 km (6.6 mi) 35,105 ft (10,700 m) above mean.;
Eponym	Skadi

Skadi Mons /ˈskɑːði ˈmɒnz/ is a mountain on Venus in Maxwell Montes, at the center of Ishtar Terra. It is the highest point of the planet with an altitude of about 10,700 meters (about 35,000 feet) above the mean planetary radius^{[citation needed]}.

Perspective rendering of Ishtar Terra, at the center of the image is Maxwell Montes, according to its elevation in red and its peaks like Skadi Mons in white.

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^ "Skadi Mons". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. USGS Astrogeology Research Program.

External linksEdit

"Map of the region with names of the features" (PDF).
"USGS Planetary Names – Ishtar Terra" (PDF). (USGS I-2490).

[1] "Skadi Mons". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. USGS Astrogeology Research Program.

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