Part D
The Solar System's Largest Volcano
Olympus Mons, the single largest volcano in our Solar System, rises almost 90,000 feet above martian "sea level". It's great height (about 3 times higher the Earth's Mount Everest and 2.5 times higher than Mauna Loa) means that its summit lies above most of the thin martian atmosphere. This volcano is part of a larger region known as the Tharsis Montes (or Tharsis Bulge), a large volcanic upland on the west end of Valles Marineris. The following questions relate to the geologic map of the Olympus Mons volcano.
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Figure 7-5. The largest volcano known, Olympus Mons. At left, a color mosaic from the Viking 1 Orbiter taken in 1978 (Courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech). |
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Answer Quiz Me! questions D41 through D50 using the Geologic Map of the Olympus Mons region of Mars (see the PDF link below).
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Geologic Map of the Olympus Mons region of Mars |
Map Scale
Description of Map Units
Geologic Map
Cross Section A-A'
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