...OlympusMons became the tallest volcano in the Solar SystemLocated in the Tharsis volcanic region of Mars, Olympus Mons is the largest known volcano and the tallest planetary mountain ever discovered.
On Mars, OlympusMons changes the comparison ... Olympus Mons is not a narrow peak thrust into the sky ... Olympus Mons is different ... Olympus Mons is a mountain by height, but a continent-scale swelling by experience ... Olympus Mons is not Everest scaled up.
OlympusMons sits in the western hemisphere of Mars, in a region called Tharsis that is itself a vast volcanic plateau ... Why Olympus Mons is so large ... Olympus Mons sits comfortably within Mars’s structural capacity.
OlympusMons is a volcano on Mars, in the Tharsis region of the planet’s western hemisphere ... Olympus Mons is about 600 kilometres across at its base, an area comparable to the US state of Arizona, or large enough to cover much of Italy.