Olympus Mons

Olympus Mons

Olympus Mons is a shield volcano on the planet, Mars. It is the tallest volcano and mountain in the Solar System. Its last eruption was 25 million years ago.

Size

Olympus Mons is 27 km (17 mi) high. This is three times taller than the highest mountain on Earth, Mount Everest.

Olympus Mons Media

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  Elevation profiles of Olympus Mons along SW-to-NE and NW-to-SE transects across the mountain. Created with Mars Quickmap.

• Colorized topographic map of Olympus Mons and its surrounding aureole, from the MOLA instrument of Mars Global Surveyor

• Olympus Rupes based on THEMIS Day IR.png

  Olympus Rupes, the northern part of Olympus Mons

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  Mars Global Surveyor image of clouds over Tharsis. Olympus Mons is in the upper left.

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  Topographic map of Olympus Mons

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  Olympus Mons (top) and the Hawaiian island chain (bottom), at the same scale.

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  Mars Global Surveyor image showing lava flows of different ages at the base of Olympus Mons. The flat plain is the younger flow. The older flow has lava channels with levees along the edges. Levees are quite common to lava flows on Mars.

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  Lava flows on Olympus Mons with older and younger flows labeled, as viewed by HiRISE during the HiWish program

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  Calderas on the summit of Olympus Mons. The youngest calderas form circular collapse craters. Older calderas appear as semicircular segments because they are transected by the younger calderas.