Olympus Mons is the tallest known mountain in the solar system, stretching 16 miles (25km) tall above the Martian surface, and with an enormous base about 374 miles (601km) wide.

Olympus Mons, Mars' immense shield volcano, towers 21 kilometers above its surface, dwarfing Earth's Mount Everest. Covering an area akin to Italy, its size stems from continuous lava flows over ...

Just before dawn on May 2, a camera 240 million kilometers from Earth caught a moment that seemed almost Earth-like: clouds hugging the flanks of a great mountain, and a summit poking defiantly above ...

An image of Olympus Mons, the tallest volcano not only on Mars but in the entire solar system. New research has revealed water frost for the first time near Mars’s equator.

Olympus Mons — two and a half times taller than Mount Everest — is encircled by "aureoles" of Martian rock and soil, which is clear evidence of ancient, colossal landslides.

This simulated perspective oblique view shows Olympus Mons, the tallest volcano not only on Mars but in the entire solar system. The volcano measures some 600 km across.

Olympus Mons is some 3.5 billion years old, which means the volcano formed early on in Mars’ history. Astronomers suspect Olympus Mons could have stayed volcanically active for hundreds of ...

The Olympus Mons towers 16 miles, 25 kilometres above the surrounding plans and stretches across 374 mile, 601 kilometres, which is roughly the size of the state of Arizona.

Olympus Mons stands at around 16 miles high and stretches some 374 miles wide, making it an absolute monster of a mountain. Yet, it wouldn't be all that hard to climb if humans could withstand ...

Olympus Mons has a volume that far surpasses Earth’s largest volcano, Mauna Loa on Hawaii. The Martian volcano has a volume “about 100 times larger than that of Mauna Loa,” according to NASA.

NASA captured an expansive view of the largest volcano known to humanity.. The space agency used its 23-year-old Mars Odyssey orbiter to capture a never-before-seen view of Olympus Mons — a ...

The massive Olympus Mons volcano on Mars—one of the solar system’s highest peaks—may have towered above a Martian ocean in the distant past, a new study suggests.