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Olympus Mons: Mars’ mega volcano
Four massive volcanoes make up the Tharsis Bulge on Mars.
Olympus mons eruption
The largest of the four, Olympus Mons, is at bottom right. Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/Justin Cowart.
Young Mars would have been a staggering place to explore. The Red Planet was covered in flowing rivers of both water and lava.
At the time, a series of four volcanoes — Olympus Mons and the three peaks of Tharsis Montes — were all growing taller than any mountain on Earth.
Each of these peaks is impressive. But Olympus Mons stands above the rest, reaching an astonishing height of 16 miles (26 kilometers), or around three times as tall as Mount Everest.
That makes Olympus Mons the largest volcano in the solar system.
However, appreciating it requires an understanding that the volcano isn’t just tall.
Olympus mons marsIt’s also got girth. Olympus Mons is about 20 times wider than it is high. Its diameter spreads 370 miles (600 kilometers) from edge to edge.
If you set Olympus Mons on top of the United States, it would cover the entire state of Arizona.
And if you plopped it over Europe, it wou
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