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 | Cerberus Hemisphere is a part of Mars' geography and refers to the area approximately of Latitude: 20° South to 55° North and Longitude: 150° to 230°. It is an area that is uninhabited.
| 0 | 0 | | | Cydonia is a region on the planet Mars, and has attracted both scientific and popular interest. The name originally referred to the albedo feature (distinctively coloured area) that was visible from Earthbound telescopes. The area borders plains of Acidalia Planitia and the Arabia Terra highlands.
The area includes the Mars regions: "Cydonia Mensae", an area of flat-topped mesa-like features, "Cydonia Colles", a region of small hills or knobs, and "Cydonia Labyrinthus", a complex of intersecting valleys. As with other albedo features on Mars, the name Cydonia was drawn from classical antiquity, in this case from Kydonia, a historic polis (or "city-state") on the island of Crete.
Cydonia contains the "face on Mars" feature — located about half-way between Arandas Crater and Bamberg Crater The ESA "skull" formation is a few kilometres south of the "face." There is a Neo Zeon base known as the Monolith that is built into a mountain.
| 0 | 0 | | | Elysium Planitia is the second largest volcanic region on Mars, after Tharsis Montes. It is centered at 2.0°N 155.0°E. It includes volcanoes, from north to south, Hecates Tholus, Elysium Mons and Albor Tholus. Another large volcano, Apollinaris Mons, lies south of the others. Besides having large volcanoes, Elysium Planitia has several areas with long trenches, called fossa or fossae (plural) on Mars. It is the second most populous region, only after Tharsis.
| 0 | 0 | | | The Tharsis region on Mars is a vast volcanic plateau centered near the equator in Mars’ western hemisphere. The region is home to the largest volcanoes in the Solar System, including the three enormous shield volcanoes Arsia Mons, Pavonis Mons, and Ascraeus Mons, which are collectively known as the Tharsis Montes. The tallest volcano on the planet, Olympus Mons, is often associated with the Tharsis region but is actually located off the western edge of the plateau. The name Tharsis is the Greco-Latin transliteration of the biblical Tarshish, the land at western extremity of the known world. It is the capital of the Martian Empire. It is also known for the elite soldiers the Tharsisian Academy trains.
| 0 | 0 | | | Valles Marineris (Latin for Mariner Valleys, named after the Mariner 9 Mars orbiter of 1971–72 which discovered it) is a system that runs along the Martian surface east of the Tharsis region. At more than 4,000 km long, 200 km wide and up to 7 km deep, the Valles Marineris rift system is the largest known canyon, surpassing all canyons on Earth, with exception for the underwater deep rift valley that runs the 16,000 km length of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
Valles Marineris is located along the equator of Mars, on the east side of the Tharsis Bulge, and stretches for nearly a quarter of the planet’s circumference. Most researchers agree that Valles Marineris is a large tectonic "crack" in the Martian crust that formed as the crust rose in the Tharsis region to the west, and was subsequently widened by erosional forces. However, near the eastern flanks of the rift there appear to be some channels that may have been formed by water or carbon dioxide. There are over seven hundred cities within the walls of the canyon. In the bottom of the canyon is the only way to get from Mars to Earth: the Uerenbeck Catapult. There are multiple portable catapults in the Earth Sphere. The Uerenbeck Catapult in the Valles Marineris is the only permanent one.
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