#olympus mons

[zegalba]

The tallest mountain in the solar system, Olympus Mons on Mars. It has a height of 25 km, Mount Everest is 'only' 8.8 km tall.

[cosmonautroger]

Olympus Mons, Mars Planet

[quiltofstars]

Mars on December 9, 2022 // Michael Bate

The "bump" near the center is Olympus Mons, the largest volcano in the solar system! If placed on Earth, it would be three times taller than Mt. Everest and cover a land area equivalent to France!

[livingforstars]

Good Morning Mars - June 19th, 1998.

"Looking down on the northern hemisphere of Mars on June 1st, 1998, the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft's wide angle camera recorded this morning image of the red planet. Mars Global Surveyor's orbit was oriented to view the planet's surface during the morning hours and the night/day shadow boundary or terminator arcs across the left side of the picture. Two large volcanos, Olympus Mons (left of center) and Ascraeus Mons (lower right) peer upward through seasonal haze and water-ice clouds of the Northern Martian Winter. The colour image was synthesised from red and blue band pictures and only approximates a "true colour" picture of Mars."

[spaceexp]

Olympus Mons, the biggest volcano in the Solar System

from Complete History of the Universe Fourth Edition

[cosmicexplorersblog]

Olympus Mons (Largest volcano in the solar system)

[mallowstep]

“of the open sea” is not the best fic I’ve ever written but it is a personal favorite for being one of my most well titled fics. It’s super personal and maybe not generalizable but the feeling the ocean gives me matches what I wanted to capture so well.

[mindblowingscience]

First detection of frost on the solar system's tallest volcanoes on Mars

For the first time, water frost has been detected on the colossal volcanoes on Mars, which are the largest mountains in the solar system. Th

For the first time, water frost has been detected on the colossal volcanoes on Mars, which are the largest mountains in the solar system. The international team led by the University of Bern used high-resolution color images from the Bernese Mars camera, CaSSIS, onboard the European Space Agency's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter spacecraft. Understanding where water can be found, and how it is transported, is relevant for future Mars missions and possible human exploration. "ExoMars" is a program of the European Space Agency ESA: for the first time since the 1970s, active research is being conducted into life on Mars. On board the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) is the Color and Stereo Surface Imaging System (CaSSIS), a camera system developed and built by an international team led by Professor Nicolas Thomas from the Physics Institute at the University of Bern. CaSSIS has been observing Mars since April 2018 and is delivering high-resolution color images of the surface of Mars.

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