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Olympus Mons facts for kids
Olympus Mons is a volcano on Mars. It is the tallest volcano, and mountain, in the solar system.
Size
Olympus Mons is 25 km (16 mi) high. This is three times taller than the highest mountain on Earth, Mount Everest.
Images for kids
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Olympus Rupes, the northern part of Olympus Mons.
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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 on many lava flows on Mars.
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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.
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Oblique view of Olympus Mons, from a Viking image mosaic overlain on MOLA altimetry data, showing the volcano's asymmetry. The view is from the NNE; vertical exaggeration is 10x. The wider, gently sloping northern flank is to the right. The more narrow and steeply sloping southern flank (left) has low, rounded terraces, features interpreted as thrust faults. The volcano's basal escarpment is prominent.
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Detailed THEMIS daytime infrared image mosaic of Olympus Mons.
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Colorized topographic map of Olympus Mons and its surrounding aureole, from the MOLA instrument of Mars Global Surveyor.
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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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Lava flows on Olympus Mons with older and younger flows labeled, as seen by HiRISE under HiWish program