Beta Regio is a region of the planet

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known as a ''volcanic rise''. Measuring about in extent, it constitutes a prominent upland region of Venus centered at . The first features that showed up in early radar surveys of the planet were given the names of letters of the

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. Beta Regio was one of those features. It was discovered and named by

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in 1964. The name was approved by the

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's Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (IAU/WGPSN) between 1976 and 1979.

Maxwell Montes Maxwell Montes is a mountain massif on the planet Venus, of which a peak ( Skadi Mons) is the highest point on the planet's surface. General description Located on Ishtar Terra, the more northern of the planet's two major highlands, Maxwe ...

Alpha Regio Alpha (uppercase , lowercase ; grc, ἄλφα, ''álpha'', or ell, άλφα, álfa) is the first letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals, it has a value of one. Alpha is derived from the Phoenician letter aleph , whic ...

, and Beta Regio are the three exceptions to the rule that the surface features of Venus are to be named for

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es. Volcanic rises are broad, sloping highlands over across. They are cut by deep troughs across. These troughs are an example of continental rifting, and are evidence of surface

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. Beta Regio is cut by a radar-bright north-south trough called

Devana Chasma Devana Chasma is a weak extensional rift zone on Venus, with a length of 4000 km, a width of 150–250 km, and a depth reaching 5 km. Most of the faults are facing north–south. The rift is located in Beta Regio, a 3000 km ris ...

. The northern end has a volcano called

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, and the southern end is dominated by a volcano titled

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