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Gentle Giant
Mt. Everest is about 9 kilometers high, but the tallest mountain in the solar system is the volcano Olympus Mons, which towers roughly 27 kilometers above the plains of Mars.
But Olympus Mons is also very wide, and it slopes upward so gently that if you climbed it, in some places you'd barely be able to tell you were going uphill. But watch your step around the edges: some of those scarps are four kilometers high.
This detailed height map comes from the Mars Express orbiter.
Sent by: Mars Express | From: Mars | Credit: ESA/Freie Universitaet Berlin and DLR Berlin
Added to www.ridingwithrobots.org July 13, 2008.
Gentle Giant
Mt. Everest is about 9 kilometers high, but the tallest mountain in the solar system is the volcano Olympus Mons, which towers roughly 27 kilometers above the plains of Mars.
But Olympus Mons is also very wide, and it slopes upward so gently that if you climbed it, in some places you'd barely be able to tell you were going uphill. But watch your step around the edges: some of those scarps are four kilometers high.
This detailed height map comes from the Mars Express orbiter.
Sent by: Mars Express | From: Mars | Credit: ESA/Freie Universitaet Berlin and DLR Berlin
Added to www.ridingwithrobots.org July 13, 2008.