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Learn how unique Martian geology and sustained planetary forces created Olympus Mons, the largest volcano in the solar system.

Olympus Mons is the youngest of the large volcanoes on Mars, having formed during the Martian Hesperian Period with eruptions continuing well into the Amazonian Period.

Mount Olympus (or Olympus Mons, the official name in Latin) on planet Mars is the largest known volcano in the Solar System. This giant shield volcano is almost entirely constructed of basalt lava flows.

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.

Olympus Mons is the solar system's tallest volcano, rising about 22 km (13.6 mi) high and 600 km (374 mi) wide on Mars—around 2.5 times the height of Mount Everest.

NASA’s 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter captured this single image of Olympus Mons, the tallest volcano in the solar system, on March 11, 2024. Besides providing an unprecedented view of the volcano, the image helps scientists study different layers of material in the atmosphere, including clouds and dust.

Olympus Mons on Mars is the tallest volcano in the Solar System completely dwarfing Earth's tallest volcano and Mount Everest combined.

Olympus Mons, volcano on the planet Mars, the highest point on the planet and the largest known volcano in the solar system. It consists of a central edifice 22 km (14 miles) high and 700 km (435 miles) across.

At the time, a series of four volcanoes — Olympus Mons and the three peaks of Tharsis Montes — were all growing taller than any mountain on Earth. Each of these peaks is impressive.

Mars' Olympus Mons is the largest volcano in the solar system. The massive Martian mountain towers high above the surrounding plains of the red planet, and may be biding its time until the next...