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Olympus Mons is shield volcano so its surface should have low diversity - mostly volcanic rocks. No sedimentary rocks (clays, gipsum, etc), no history of hydrospre of Mars in past, no sites where possible lifeforms exist or could exist in past.
Then select "Line" and press down on Olympus Mons and let go on the western edge of Valles Marineris. Then the distance is shown and if you press the "Submit" button you get the elevation profile from Olympus Mons to Valles Marineris. If you choose the most north-western edge of the canyon of Valles Marineris the distance will be about 2888 km.
Therefore, aerodynamically speaking, launching from the top of Olympus Mons with a mass driver is absolutely possible. As the density of the atmosphere at the surface of Mars is 0.02 kg/m2, the dynamic pressure at the surface would be 8079 N/m^2; therefore, launching from the surface (technically called the Mars datum surface, or average ...
For the most part, they appear very featureless (See photo from HiRISE of Olympus Mons) There are other areas of Mars that show more interesting chemical compounds, etc, that just don't show up on the mountain. Thus, they are higher priority. I suggest if you are curious then look up HiRISE images from Olympus Mons.
However, on Mars Olympus Mons provides an altitude advantage of 21 kilometers (something with no analog on Earth) and near Mars' equator at 19° North. In this case, how much of an advantage would this be for a launch for a given vehicle? 1% in payload mass? 10%? For balance, answers are welcome to point out the challenges and disadvantages as ...
Its pressure ranges from 72 Pa (0.0104 psi) on the top of Olympus Mons to 1240 Pa (0.18 psi) in the Hellas Basin. Since this is quite a difference, I'm curious on both scenarios: how long would astronauts' footprints remain on Mars in case astronauts land on Olympus Mons, and in case they land in the Hellas Basin?
Mars has a very high mountain, Olympus Mons (25 km), while Hellas Planitia is a 9 km deep crater. How much would the weight of a person weighing 100kg on Earth, change between the highest peak of the Olympus Mons and the Hellas Planitia crater's deepest point?
Olympus mons is 27km high-more than three times the height of Mount Everest. Mars needs human landing so would we get a benefit if we landed on olympus mons as our first landing?
At the summit of Olympus Mons (21.25 km) the pressure is about 0.3 millibar. That would set 2.9 millibar at about 9.8 km above the Martian surface. The record for highest high-altitude balloon is 53 km, where the pressure is only 0.55 millibar. If released on Mars that balloon would pass the top of Olympus Mons going up to 28 km.
To clarify this, an example about the cratering around the time and after the eruptions of Mars's Olympus Mons have been summarised in the webpage Olympus Mons, specifically: The theory behind crater retention age dating is that more densely cratered surfaces are older than sparsely cratered surfaces because of differences in exposure to bolide ...