The red rectangle shows the approximate location of Ovda Regio on the western part of Aphrodite Terra.
Feature type
Regio
Coordinates
10°N to 15°S and 50°E to 110°E
Surface area
15,000,000 square kilometres
Eponym
Marijian forest spirit
Ovda Regio is a Venusian crustal plateau located near the equator in the western highland region of Aphrodite Terra that stretches from 10°N to 15°S and 50°E to 110°E. Known as the largest crustal plateau in Venus, the regio covers an area of approximately 15,000,000 square kilometres (5,800,000 sq mi)[1] and is bounded by regional plains to the north, Salus Tessera to the west, Thetis Regio to the east, and Kuanja as well as Ix Chel chasmata to the south.[2] The crustal plateau serves as a place to hold the localized tessera terrains in the planet, which makes up roughly 8% of Venus' surface area.[2][3] The kinematic evolution of crustal plateaus on Venus has been a debated topic in the planetary science community. Understanding its complex evolution is expected to contribute to a better knowledge of the geodynamic history of Venus. It is named after a Marijian forest spirit that can appear as both male and female.[4][5]
^Dimensions are 6000 × 2500 km
^ abGhent, Rebecca; Hansen, Vicki (6 January 1999). "Structural and Kinematic Analysis of Eastern Ovda Regio, Venus: Implications for Crustal Plateau Formation". Icarus. 139 (1): 116–136. Bibcode:1999Icar..139..116G. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.124.2964. doi:10.1006/icar.1999.6085.
^Kucinskas, Algis B.; Turcotte, Donald L.; Huang, Jie; Ford, Peter G. (25 August 1992). "Fractal Analysis of Venus Topography in Tinatin Planitia and Ovda Regio". Journal of Geophysical Research. 97 (E8): 13635–13641. Bibcode:1992JGR....9713635K. doi:10.1029/92JE01132.
^Holmberg, Uno (1927). Mythology of All Races Volume 4. pp. 183.
^McLeish, Kenneth (1996). Dictionary of Myth. Bloomsbury.
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