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Olympus Mons is 25km high and the tallest known mountain in the Solar System. Mars is just over half the size of Earth. Here on Earth, the curvature of the planet is hardly visible from the height of commerical aeroplane (roughly 10km). I was wondering, considering the height of Olympus Mons and the size difference of Mars, if the curvature ...
But, a meteor hitting Mars will dig down and can excavate older flows. So, the longer conclusion-answer to your question is: No, the eruptions of volcanoes on Mars - including Olympus Mons - cannot be responsible for the Martian meteorites seen on Earth, but it is certain that volcanic material from Mars has formed some of the Martian ...
According to Wikipedia Olympus Mons, its altitude is 21.9 km, and its geodetic latitude is 18.65° N. Hence its parametric latitude is ~18.5477°, and the radius of the ellipsoid at that latitude is ~3394.18 km. So at the top of Olympus Mons, the radius is ~3416.1 km. Here's some of the relevant algebra. The geodetic latitude is the usual ...
1. On Earth, the maximum height for a mountain is ~10 km. Beyond that, the mountain will start to spread or collapse. On the surface of Mars, the gravity is not as strong, so the maximum height for a mountain is higher. The edges of Olympus Mons are very steep cliffs, rather than being a shallow slope all the way down.
Neither Ascraeus mons nor Elysium mons (Even Tharsis Tholus) will allow you to see an actual "horizon" because of the "low" steepness and the curvature of Mars. Yes, The longest line of site can be seen in Valles Marineris (Melas Chasma?). With help of some astrogeology and math, taking the reference site as Melas Chasma (the widest segment of ...
Detailed photographic studies by NASA’s Global Surveyor starting in 1997, and the Mars Express High Resolution Stereo Camera, which began orbiting Mars in December of 2003, provide evidence of effusive volcanism perhaps as young as 2–2.5 million years, with flows mantling the flanks of Olympus Mons erupted mostly within the past 200 million ...
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Unlike Mercury, Mars does have a large equatorial bulge (~40 km). If one assumes that diameter decreases linearly from the equator to the pole, it's more than 4 km every 10°. Arsia Mons is lower than Olympus Mons but is also ~10° lower in latitude... Ascraeus Mons could be a candidate as well, might be worth calculating. $\endgroup$
Improved remote observations of Mars has provided a tool for estimating ages of Mars features: crater density. Based on crater density, the Hellas Basin appears to be very old, at least 3.8 billion years old (Carr 2010). Alba Mons, while also quite old, isn't that old. It formed at least 200 million years after the Hellas Basin impact and ...