Olympus Mons

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The Olympus Mons is located on Mars. It just happens to be the largest volcano in our solar system.

The Olympus Mons is about the height of Mt. Everest three times over. It also spans the width of the Hawaiian Island Chain. Its surrounded by a well-defined scarp this is about 6 km high. Now well before space probes defined what it really was, astronomers knew it as the albedo feature Nix Olympica. Scientists believe that this volcano was able to form because unlike earth it has little to none active tectonic plates. Which allows a hot spot to form and to grow more and more over time and it would allow more magma to get through. Also, some of the spots on the volcano only date back to, 2 million years, which is pretty young. Scientists wouldn't be surprised to see eruptions in the future.

Now even though this amazing sight isn't on our planet. It truely is an amazing sight for anyone to see. The Olympus Monds is great and is surely getting greater.