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Mars’ Massive Olympus Mons Volcano Still Puzzles Planetary Scientists
Republish | 28/03/2021 03:21 PM | Click to read full article
Some 25 km high, or two and a half times the height of Mount Everest, Olympus Mons’ summit caldera is some 3 km deep and measures 80 km across, NASA reports. Olympus Mons stretches over an area about equal to the U.S. state of Arizona.
Question is: how did it actually form?
