Terrain Map of Olympus mons .....The Highest Mountain in Solar System

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Olympus Mons, Mars Planet

Perspective view of Mars’s Tharsis volcanoes by European Space Agency Via Flickr: This oblique perspective view shows a slice of Mars imaged to mark a milestone for ESA’s Mars Express: its 25 000th orbit around the Red Planet. It was generated from a digital terrain model and the nadir (downward-pointing) and colour channels of Mars Express’s High Resolution Stereo Camera. The vertical scale is exaggerated by a factor of approximately three, making the volcanoes look three times higher than they are in real life. Three of Mars’s famously colossal volcanoes are shown here: from left to right, Arsia, Pavonis and Ascraeus Mons. The mound of Mars’s largest volcano, Olympus Mons, can be spied further away at the top of the frame, while the fractured terrain of Noctis Labyrinthus, Mars’s ‘labyrinth of night’, can be seen in the foreground. Read more [Image description: This image shows a tan-coloured portion of Mars, with the curvature of the planet visible to the top left the frame. Four of Mars’s volcanoes can be seen in relief against the dark background, shown as darker mounds stretching away from the viewer.] Credits: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO

7:23 AM EST March 8, 2024:

Del Rey - "Olympus Mons" From the album A Pyramid For The Living (2006)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under: Sci-fi Inflected Post-rock

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Postcards sets, including a rough illustration of Olympus Mons.

Dear vector prime. What if the ark and nemesis missed Earth and had crash landed on Mars instead.

Dear Malacandran Matter,

At that fateful moment when Optimus tried to crash the Ark into Earth in 1984, Megatron fired upon him, throwing off his steering. The Ark careened into Mars instead, crashing into the deep Valles Marineris, with the Nemesis staying in orbit.

Millions of years later, the damaged Ark repaired both Autobots and Decepticons using ancient local technology: lunar rovers for Autobots, antigravity flying saucers for Decepticons. The Transformers were strangers in a strange land, seeing the planet covered with machinery from an odd planet named Earth, whose dominant species had gone extinct millions of years ago. But Mars was still inhabited. The Hyperclan of the polar regions were on the verge of defeating the Green Martians, led by a Martian named "J'onzz". The Decepticons and Hyperclan joined forces and Megatron himself intended to crash the Nemesis into the great Martian volcano, Olympus Mons. The eruption would destroy the Green Martians, who were weak to fire, and provide a source of energon to the Decepticons.

One Green Martian, D'kay D'razz, found herself enchanted with a mysterious power source from within Optimus Prime. Just as the Autobots were about to launch a final offensive to end the crisis of the crashing Nemesis, D'kay attacked Optimus Prime fatally, and took the Matrix for herself. As the Decepticons and Hyperclan were about to finish off the Autobots and Green Martians, she realized that her actions had threatened the Martian race. She teleported onto the Nemesis and defeated Megatron, steering the ship into the polar ice caps, destroying the Hyperclan.

J'onzz mourned the loss of his new friend Optimus Prime and the wayward D'razz, but he and the remaining Autobots hoped they could live together in harmony, in a Golden Red Age. Unfortunately, at that moment, Shockwave arrived on Mars to aid the Decepticons, declaring that the Autobots would soon be all dead.

These events are collected in the DC miniseries The Transformers, published in 1984.

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Olympus Mons, Mars Planet

Olympus Mons: Largest Volcano in the Solar System

The largest volcano in our Solar System is on Mars. Although three times higher than Earth's Mount Everest, Olympus Mons will not be difficult for humans to climb because of the volcano's shallow slopes and Mars' low gravity. Covering an area greater than the entire Hawaiian volcano chain, the slopes of Olympus Mons typically rise only a few degrees at a time. Olympus Mons is an immense shield volcano, built long ago by fluid lava. A relatively static surface crust allowed it to build up over time. Its last eruption is thought to have been about 25 million years ago. The featured image was taken by the European Space Agency's robotic Mars Express spacecraft currently orbiting the Red Planet.

Image Copyright: Image Credit: ESA, DLR, FU Berlin, Mars Express; Processing & CC BY 2.0 License: Andrea Luck

I wonder, in some far flung future when Humanity conquers the solar system, will Olympus Mons be seen with the same reverence that Everest is today?

Who'll be the first person to climb it?

Olympus Mons is a shield volcano located on the planet Mars. It is the tallest mountain in the Solar System, with an elevation of about 22 kilometers above the Martian datum (the point from which Martian elevations are measured). Olympus Mons is located in the Tharsis volcanic plateau region of Mars, which is known for its extensive volcanic activity.

This volcano mountain is on Mars. It is called Olympus Mons. It is the tallest mountain in our solar system. It is three times larger than Mount Everest ( 26 km long and 600 km wide Amazing.