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Olympus Mons (/ əˌlɪmpəs ˈmɒnz, oʊ -/; [4] Latin for ' Mount Olympus ') is a large shield volcano on Mars. It is over 21.9 km (13.6 mi; 72,000 ft) high as measured by the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA), [5] about 2.5 times the elevation of Mount Everest above sea level.
27 Ιαν 2023 · Mars' Olympus Mons is the largest volcano in the solar system. The massive Martian mountain towers high above the surrounding plains of the red planet, and may be biding its time until the...
23 Οκτ 2024 · Olympus Mons, volcano on the planet Mars, the highest point on the planet and the largest known volcano in the solar system. Centred at 19° N, 133° W, Olympus Mons consists of a central edifice 22 km (14 miles) high and 700 km (435 miles) across.
17 Νοε 2023 · A 3D image of Mars’ massive volcano, Olympus Mons, which is the largest in the solar system. Credit: NASA. In a Nature Communications paper published in 2017, astronomers studied a family of...
11 Ιουν 2024 · Namely, Olympus Mons is a giant volcano on Mars that towers 16 miles above the neighboring plains and stretches 374 miles. In fact, it is so broad, that it doesn’t look like a typical mountain found on Earth. If you were standing on it, it would simply appear like a soft slope.
The largest and most conspicuous volcanoes on Mars occur in Tharsis and Elysium regions. These volcanoes are strikingly similar to shield volcanoes on Earth. Both have shallow-sloping flanks and summit calderas .
Located close to the Martian equator, in the planet’s western hemisphere, Olympus Mons stands an impressive 21km above the Mars global datum (the equivalent of ‘sea level’ for a waterless planet), and in places towers over its local surroundings by as much as 26km.
