just because Mars is low-G, does not mean you would fail to notice the incline. After a few days of walking and whatnot - in a heavy suit - YOU would notice! Good thing the suits are air-tight, it will help contain the stink! Also the beaches or playa on Mars, suck!
"Climbing it is a slow incline that gradually slopes as you climb it , in fact you would not even know you were climbing it. The center of Olympus Mons would be like that of the Grand Canyon 😮
I’ve recently had the pleasure/displeasure of working on Mauna Kea recently. The staff at the observatory is decommissioning one of the old school 1982 telescopes. I believe the telescope itself was donated to a different observatory (in Peru I believe?). I had a relatively short job but they needed to bring in a construction crew, disposal crew, lineman, electricians, etc. They had to give a safety briefing before letting you drive up to the summit and I remember them telling us, “There’s 40% less oxygen so you’ll be 40% dumber”. Spot on description. If you move slow, with controlled breathing, you’ll be fine. However, I remember doing a brisk jog back to my truck for some tools and I remember briefly losing my motor skills. I got light headed so fast. Altitude sickness is no joke
@@JOSWAY787but you can breathe underground lol. As long as you are below the atmospheric threshold breathable air is abundant as long as you have the means to breathe it.
That was Everest up until like 100 years ago lol. Had literally not even once been scaled to the peak for all of human history until that point. That's why it was such a legendary feat.
@@digiquo8143 it’s so cool to think about what we used to view as impossible until we achieve it. just goes to show how things we see as impossible can one day become possible through perseverance and technological advancements.
Due to how wide it is, you wouldn’t notice it if you were on the surface. It’s such a gradual incline that you wouldn’t know you’re even ascending Olympus Mons.
Imagine in 200 years they’ll start to kindle the olympic torch there, or at least use the place for the olympic games. Since in recent years they’ve even transported the torch with satellites, so imagine an intergalactic olympic games.
now i know why is called the ship in call of duty infinite warfare (the campaign) the olympus mont edit: thanks edit 2: so i now just realize that in the game it actually says why the ship was called that, soo this comment was unecesary
yeah an oxygen tank exists ( I DID NOT SAY IT WOULD BE CONTINUOUS!!!!!!!!!!! it seems many people here are genuinely brain dead. BREAKS ARE POSSIBLE! )
Imagine how much would be saved in fuel if we just had an electromagnetically powered ramp up the side of the mountain, along which to launch rockets into space.
that would actually be impossible. mountains on earth can't get much taller than everest or so, let alone more than twice that height. the reason is that the pressure at the base would be so great, that some of the bonds between the atoms in the rocks would start breaking, making it slowly flow like plastic being deformed. this plastic deformation would cause such a gigantic mountain to spread out, until the pressure at the base falls around or below the aforementioned limit. the resulting height would be comparable to that of everest at that point.
The most unappreciated fact is that Olympus Mons is SO LARGE IN SCALE that you can't see the peak from the base due to the curvature of Mars. The horizon literally can't present you with the whole mountain from the base.
That's more because of its gentle slope son. It takes a lot of distance to get to the top besides just the height. It would actually be pretty easy to "climb" because you could just walk up it, it would just take a really long time.
@@TopDog902 I could beet my dawg for 38% longer!! But the beeting's would be 39% gentler prolly. Maybe if I wore really heavy shoes it wood hold me to that surface harder in turn allowing me to beet my dawg harder? I'm not sure, look into it and get back to me son.
I thought the rest of the world was full geographically astute big brains, unlike the uncultured, know-nothing Americans I constantly hear about online…. 🤔
Because it has such a wide top, the curvature of the planet would mostly hide the incline of the peak. So it would look relatively flat, but it would still feel like going uphill. Trippy stuff
@@MrTrevortxeartxerovers are sent to basins to protect them from the worst of Martian dust storms. On Olympus Mons they would be obscured to the point of being unusable.
IKR?!? But it would have been so cool if it was on Earth which I don't think is possible sadly due to Earths gravity and tectonic plates. Same goes for that canyon on Mars too! Ugh!! Why does Mars get the good things!?!
What's really mindblowing is that, despite its height, it's so wide that its slope is only a mild incline that you would barely even notice if you were walking up it.
Fun fact: the mountain's height, its gradual slope and the planet's curvature would prevent you to see the base of the mountain of you were standing on its peak.
@@jennyanydots2389 there is actually a difference between unemployed and someone who can afford to not work. The unemployment rate does not factor in retired people or people that are comfortable financially and choosing not to work.
@@224L What do you tell yourself those unemployment checks are for then? Or are you just on welfare now like your buddy Elon... over there chuggin down that corporate welfare. Did you know that real billionaires consider Musk to be a welfare billionaire because of all the EV subsidies he gets and how he sells carbon credits to other companies further maximizing that corporate welfare? Also nullifying any environmental impact his EV's have by just selling carbon credits to companies so they can pollute more and not get fined by the EPA. The guy is mostly fraudulent fundamentally. Just like Twitter was only about free speech, he "doesnt care about the financials".... hahahhahahah You guys are brilliant. Conned... and you don't even know it yet.
Rheasilvia Mons on Vesta, which is taller than Olympus Mons: The (unconfirmed but likely) mountain on the dwarf planet 2002 MS4 that’s a whole 3km taller than Olympus Mons: Olympus Mons is the tallest *volcano* in the solar system, not mountain
As you say unconfirmed though...& Rheasilvia Mons is estimated at 20-25 km (12-16 mi; 66,000-82,000 ft), therefore still smaller than Olympus Mons. In fairness though due to all the area & inclines involved with these mountains...I think Verona Rupes on Uranus's moon Miranda would be the one to experience (if you could, safely 😂) a huge 12 mile straight drop, which apparently would take approximately 12 minutes to fall down unassisted with Miranda's gravity. 😮
@@thekalechipsvendetta I'm not 100% but I believe the terminal velocity would be very similar to here on Earth IIRC...something like 120mph roughly. (Hence the "if you could do it safely) 😂👍 Just need a few retro rockets near the bottom maybe 😅
The 25-26km measurement often given for Olympus Mons is misleading, as it comes from measuring the peak, not against the base, but against Amazonis Planitia, a low-lying lava plain over 1000km from the base of the volcano. The Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter satellite measured Olympus Mons as 21.9km from peak to base. Rheasilvia Central Peak, at 22.5km measured from peak to base, is taller.
In case anyone was confused, "almost higher than the Earth's ozone layer" is bad writer shorthand for "almost as high as the Earth's ozone layer" or perhaps "lower than the Earth's ozone layer."
The catch with Olympus mons is that even though its so tall, at the same time its so wide you might not realize you were on it if you were able to get there
Mars geology has a couple of really weird things. First of all, if we were to create oceans, most of the southern hemisphere would be ocean and most of the northern would be land. Secondly, every large martian volcano has a NON-COINCIDENTAL large asteroid impact on the opposite spot of the planet. Yes, they are born by beeing kicked in the bum.
Long story short, scientists think Mars got hit with some _really_ heavy rocks during the LHB, even one so heavy it turned the whole north into a giant crater. The disagreement comes from whether Mars was too small and would've lost its atmosphere anyway... or if it would've been fine if those impacts hadn't slowed down and cooled the core, killing the magnetic field. If the latter, we'd have had next door neighbours.
The only challenge to that would be the start, there it has a huge cliff but after getting over that you just have a very long treck, about that of walking half of France or if you wanna make to the other side all of the country.
Hi there this is Jim Cabrey and I am totally blind like to listen to these things on RU-vid you don’t Mount Everest you need a oxygen bottle of around 16,000 feet that there’s no oxygen why you need about it probably a three day supply of auction, the ground out thing
This is another reason why scientists believe Mars’s core has quit spinning. Lava eruptions on Earth move when the tectonic plates move, creating island chains. If a volcano kept erupting over and over in the same place it will form to be huge like that.
But you missed a point here. Lava eruptions on earth do not move when the plates move, for those cases with a stationary magma hotspot. If the hotspot also moved then there would be no island chain.
Only if it erupts from the top only. And erupts slowly, not blowing its top. Hawaii get the volcano that spit lava that runs down to the ocean, making more aina, rather than taller mauka.
@mwm48 Only if it erupts from the top only. And erupts slowly, not blowing its top. Hawaii get the volcano that spit lava that runs down to the ocean, making more aina, rather than taller mauka. Also, the lava tubes don't move, not in the way your describing. I live Oahu were there is no eruptions but we get DiamondHead on the EastSide dormant, but there was a magmatic seismic event here in 2006 from lava flowing underground. Deep underground.
The core has certainly quit spinning as there is no magnetic field as we have on earth. Given its size, Olympus M could have been the cause of heat loss of the inner layers, if it was chronically active. Without a magnetic field, Mars had no shield against the bombardment of cosmic rays; which stripped away its already thin atmosphere over time. The issue of whether there was ever any form of life Mars, is for academic discussion, but the reality is that it is truly a “dead” planet!
Tangential fun fact: Despite being taller than Mt. Everest by a considerable degree, Olympus Mons has a very gentle grade. Plenty of other commentors have mentioned that walking up said slope would be about as difficult as trekking halfway across Arizona, but I will mention something else: If you ran a rail track up the side of Olympus Mons, you could sling spacecraft into orbit at a similar cost ratio to running a cross-country cargo train.
Uh, no. The amount of propulsion to escape the pull of gravity is astronomical. You'd use rockets, not rails. It's not how high you are from the surface that matters, it is about how fast you are going.
@@Firebolt68 I’m not saying you wouldn’t have to go fast. I’m saying it’s a lot easier to accelerate up to orbital velocity over a long shallow grade in a thin atmosphere than it is to do it straight up in a thick one.
Fun fact: because Mars has such a thin atmosphere, the peak of the mountain is actually in space. So if you were to ever climb it, you will need your space suit
You can already see that with Mars' volcanos. They haven't erupted for millions of years, so their sides are gradually eroding away and collapsing, leaving a spectacular ridge that would be so beautiful from the surface. As for why it is so tall, on Earth, the crust is constantly moving, so the mantle plumes that create shield volcanos like Mauna Kea are never under the same spot for very long, creating chains of volcanos that each eventually stop erupting when they drift past the underlying magma. Mars, by contrast, has never had plate tectonics, so during the distant past when its volcanos were active, they did not drift, staying over the same mantle plume for their entire history. This builds up a single gigantic shield volcano, whose growth is also helped by Mars' weaker gravity.
The distance from the bottom of the Mariana Trench to the Top of Mount Everest is 11 miles. So, that mountain on Mars is taller than The Mariana Trench to Mount Everest by 5 miles.
@@seantaggart7382yea but this guy in the video just makes stuff up. In the video he says the mountain in 16 miles tall but also says that's twice as tall as Everest, NO, Everest is around 5.3 5.4 miles tall doing quick math in my head...The mountain on Mars is 3 times as high, not twice. Someone didn't teach this youtuber proper math
@@seantaggart7382 Mriana Trench is extremely long and wide. It's just not if you break apart everest all of it would fit in the trench with room to spare
imagine the weather Olympus Mons would create if it was on earth. Year round snow fall, statewide shadows, winds, permanent pressure differences on each side of the mountain
@@mudpie6927correct Olympus Mons could only grow so big because Mars doesn't have techtonic plates on earth it would have shrunk millions of years ago
Don't tell people that. Then next thing you know, they'll start questioning these fake pictures from Not A Space Agency and realize the type of world they actually live in.
I agree with the guy before who cares about a mountain if half of its mass is under the ocean. May as well be under the ground at that point. Give the Himalayas their rightful glory. I'm sick of people saying Mauna Kea is worthy of such a title
that's what I was wondering, weird to leave that out. wonder if that has any implications for traveling to or from mars, like might be a good place to take off from considering there's no atmosphere to push your rocket trough....
@@user-gk3yh2wf1f Don't forget the countless Sherpa's I'd have to sacrifice, brave, brave men. Not as brave or memorable as me of course though, Chuck Nutly: First man on Mars and first to ascend Olympus Mons. I'm prepared to send wave after wave of Sherpas at that thing, I don't care if I have to tread on their corpses I'm going to be the first to the top.
It is so large that we could not see it as a mountain, from the surface the slopes would be lost in the horizon due to the curvature of the planet, at most we would see it as a slightly ascending terrain.
Brother there is no curve. If it was then why architects doesn't not consider that when building bridges and everything else huh? Think of a ball. How much flat areas do you have? And we are talking about a whole planet! Think!💯
@@kevinwilliams7252Engineers actually do consider it when building long enough bridges. If you're gonna be dumb and believe the Earth is flat, at least ask better questions.
I like to imagine hundreds of years from now. We have been colonizing other planets outside our solar system for a long time. And Olympus Mons has a big resort community on the top of the mountain. Wide enough to not even know your on a mountain. I imagine something like an artificial environment would have to be made to keep people able to breathe.
@@littlethuggie the only miserable thing I can think of this is that it would certainly only be open the rich and wealthy, but aside from that, I don't see why it would be miserable
@@davidfernandez1992Dividing the width and height of the whole mountain isn't going to give you an accurate estimate for inclination. You need to factor in the the length of the inclination itself.
I think the coolest thing about it is that it's so large that the elevation change (if you were starting from the edge and not down below it, which is somewhat of a drop) is so gradual that it wouldn't be that noticeable and would almost appear like you were standing on flat land as you faced the peak.
@@user-up2fr6uq3q On one side are some cliffs that are probably the tallest in the entire solar system. It would be an awesome spot to sacrifice white babies from.
I heard Olympus Mounds is so big that if you tried to climb it, you wouldn’t be climbing at all, it would feel like walking on leveled ground with a barely noticeable increase in steepness as you go up the Martian mountain.
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Well.... There are places in our solar system that rain diamonds so considering this mountain is on another planet somewhere far away its not that hard.
Imagine you're in the ISS in orbit passing through Arizona and the pilot is like "Alright, were gonna hit Olimpus, were gonna go down to earth on foot, get ready!
Whats even crazier about the mountain is when you put into perspective that it normally takes 10 weeks - 3 months to climb Mt Everest, so imagine climbing something almost 3 times as big
I assume it is so big that from a distance you cant see it because you’re too far away, but get closer you are actually on it so you cant see all of it.
Actually, the mountain on Vesta (Called Rheasilvia) is roughly 100m taller than Olympus Mons, making it the tallest mountain in the solar system. Edit: Vesta is also considered a protoplanet, not an asteroid, because it is has rounded itself out more than an asteroid, but not enough to become a dwarf planet.
Everest is still harder to climb. Olympus Mons is actually a really gentle slope spread over 380 miles, you could walk up most if not all of it. On top of that, mars has lower gravity so you could carry more stuff up to the top for the sacrifices. Like ten babies instead just two or three. Maybe a couple dawgs?
@@Dark-ts3ox The northwestern side is quite shallow. As well as many other spots where it's a fairly shallow grade. You are talking about the southwestern side which has steep cliffs, but still wouldn't be insurmountable if you, for some reason, wanted to climb them instead of walking up the more shallow parts. The cliffs aren't a uniform feature around the entire 380-mile base if that's what you are thinking.
