Olympus Mons reaches an astonishing height of 16 miles (26 kilometers) - three times as tall as Mount Everest. And it may tell us quite a bit about its home, Mars.

Some 25 km high, or two and a half times the height of Mount Everest, Olympus Mons’ summit caldera is some 3 km deep and measures 80 km across, NASA reports. A shield volcano —- a wide and ...

The tallest volcano in Mars' equator region, Mt. Olympus Mons, was recently discovered to have water frost forming around it, and it is now a massive phenomenon for researchers.

Olympus Mons dwarfs all of Earth’s mountains and volcanoes by large margins, measuring 435 miles (700 km) wide and 14 miles (22 km) high. For comparison, that’s about two and a half times as tall as ...

The Olympus Mons volcano on Mars with a height of 22 km is nearly two and a half times as high as Mount Everest. Its diameter is 600 km, which is about the distance between Berlin and Munich.

Olympus Mons — two and a half times taller than Mount Everest — is encircled by "aureoles" of Martian rock and soil, which is clear evidence of ancient, colossal landslides.

Earth: Mt. Everest 8.848 km Mars: Olympus Mons: 21.9 km Showing that Mars' greatest mountain is 2.4 times the height of Earth's greatest mountain.

Olympus Mons is the largest volcano in the solar system. (Image credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/Mars Express/Andrea Luck CC BY 2.0) The tallest mountain in the solar system has an interesting past.

Researchers analyzing images of Mars' Olympus Mons, the tallest in our solar system, say a wrinkled patch of land near the mountain's northern region likely formed when blisteringly hot lava oozed ...

Journal Reference: McGovern, Patrick J., Morgan, Julia K. Volcanic spreading and lateral variations in the structure of Olympus Mons, Mars. Geology, 2009; 37 (2): 139 DOI: 10.1130/G25180A.1 ...