Maxwell Montes is a mountain massif on the planet Venus, part of which contains the highest point on the planet's surface. Located on Ishtar Terra, the more northern of the planet's two major highlands, it is 11 km tall. It is named for James Clerk Maxwell, and is, along with Alpha Regio and Beta Regio, one of three exceptions of the rule that Venusian surface features are named for women or goddesses. Thus, Mons Veneris has been proposed as a replacement name for this feature, but so far has been rejected by the International Astronomical Union. Due to its elevation is the coolest and least pressurised location on the surface of Venus.
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| Geography | Atmosphere · Geology · Terrae · Arachnoid · Baltis Vallis · Craters · Lakshmi Planum · Dune fields Volcanoes: Pancake dome · Scalloped margin dome Mountains on Venus:Abeona Mons · Anala Mons · Ciuacoatl Mons · Maat Mons · Maxwell Montes · Sapas Mons · Theia Mons Regions: Alpha Regio · Aphrodite Terra · Beta Regio · Ishtar Terra · Sedna Planitia Coronae: Artemis Corona · Nightingale Corona |
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| Exploration | Venus spacecraft · List of artificial objects on Venus · Venera program · Vega program · Pioneer Venus · Magellan | |
| Other | Venus-crosser asteroid · Colonization of Venus · Cytherean · Venus in fiction · Hesperus · Neith (hypothetical moon) · Phases of Venus · Terraforming of Venus · Transit of Venus · Venusian | |
