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The solar system's tallest mountain is possibly the Olympus Mons on Mars with an altitude of 21.9 to 26 km. The central peak of Rheasilvia on the asteroid Vesta is also a candidate to be the tallest, with an estimated at up to between 20 and 25 km from peak to base.
English: Schematic view of Olympus Mons, Mars : Comparison of Olympus Mons with the highest mountains on Earth. In front of the central part of Olympus Mons are shown the largest terrestrial volcanic mountain, the island of Hawaii in the Pacific with its undersea pedestal, and the Mount Everest massif of the Himalayas.
Olympus Mons (/ ə ˌ l ɪ m p ə s ˈ m ɒ n z, oʊ-/; [4] Latin for 'Mount Olympus') is a large shield volcano on Mars. It is over 21.9 km (13.6 mi; 72,000 ft) high as measured by the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA), [ 5 ] about 2.5 times the elevation of Mount Everest above sea level .
English: Side view of Olympus Mons, the largest volcano on Mars, with comparison to Mount Everest and Mauna Kea. Čeština: ... Height: 205.65125
English: Comparison between size of France and Olympus Mons (planet Mars), the highest mountain in the solar system. Français : Comparaison entre les tailles de la France et d' Olympus Mons (planète Mars), la plus haute montagne du système solaire.
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Almost all mountains in the list are located in the Himalaya and Karakoram ranges to the south and west of the Tibetan plateau. All peaks 7,000 m (23,000 ft) or higher are located in East, Central or South Asia in a rectangle edged by Noshaq (7,492 m or 24,580 ft) on the Afghanistan–Pakistan border in the west, Jengish Chokusu (Tuōmù'ěr Fēng, 7,439 m or 24,406 ft) on the Kyrgyzstan ...
3 Who made Rheasilvia a Mons? 3 comments. 4 Interwikilink information. 5 comments. 5 Base-to-peak. 4 comments. 6 Featured on Smithsonian. 1 comment. 7 ...