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Olympus Mons, the tallest planetary mountain in the Solar System, compared to Mount Everest and Mauna Kea on Earth (heights shown are above datum or sea level, which differ from the base-to-peak heights given in the list). This is a list of the tallest mountains in the Solar System.
Most sources (and the table below) define no parent for island and landmass highpoints; others treat Mount Everest as the parent of every such peak with the world ocean as the "key col". Prominence table
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 .
A reader would see, from the table in this article (which is sortable by height), that the height of Rheasilvia is 22 km and the height of Olympus Mons is 21.9 km and I am sure many readers would conclude that Rheasilvia's central peak is higher than Olympus Mons, making it the tallest mountain in the Solar System, but this may only be an ...
There are 14 mountains over 8,000 metres (26,247 ft), which are often referred to as the Eight-thousanders. (Some people have claimed there are six more 8,000m peaks in Nepal, making for a total of 20. [1])
Mount Olympus: 2918 m 9,573 ft Epitalio: −6 m −20 ft [9] [10] 2917 m 9,570 ft Greenland: Gunnbjørn Fjeld [r] 3694 m 12,119 ft Arctic Ocean North Atlantic Ocean: sea level 3700 m 12,139 ft Grenada: Mount Saint Catherine: 840 m 2,756 ft Caribbean Sea: sea level 840 m 2,756 ft Guadeloupe: La Grande Soufrière on Basse-Terre Island: 1467 m ...
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.
Mount Olympus (/ oʊ ˈ l ɪ m p ə s, ə ˈ l ɪ m-/, [5] Greek: Όλυμπος, romanized: Ólympos, IPA: [ˈoli(m)bos]) is an extensive massif near the Thermaic Gulf of the Aegean Sea, located on the border between Thessaly and Macedonia, between the regional units of Larissa and Pieria, about 80 km (50 mi) southwest from Thessaloniki. [6]