This is Olympus Mons, the Largest Volcano in the Solar System

KOMPAS.com – Mount Everest has been named the highest mountain on Earth with a height of about 8,848 m.

Earth is not the only planet that has mountains. The planet Mars also has mountains, even on this red planet there are volcano largest in the solar system.

Olympus Mons is the largest volcano in the solar system which is on Mars.

This giant mountain towers high on the plains around the Planet Mars.

Characteristics of Olympus Mons

Reported from Space, Olympus Mons is in the Tharsis Montes region near the Martian equator.

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Olympus Mons is one of dozens of large volcanoes, many of which are ten to a hundred times higher.

The highest mountain of them all has a height of 25 kilometers above the surrounding plains and stretches over 374 miles 624 km.

For comparison, Mount Mauna Loa, Hawaii, has a height of 10 km above the sea floor. The volume that Olympus Mons holds is roughly a hundred times that of Mauna Loa and the Hawaiian island chain that hosts Earth’s volcanoes could fit inside its Martian counterpart.

Olympus Mons is a shield volcano. Instead of spewing liquid material hard, a shield volcano is formed from lava that slowly flows along its sides.

As a result, Olympus Mons appears low, squat, with an average slope of only 5 percent.

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