@@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.
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 😮
Other fun facts: 1. Olympus Mons grew so tall because of the weak Martian gravity. A mountain this tall on Earth would have collapsed in itself. 2. Olympus Mons and 2 other towering peaks protrude from the northern lowlands of Mars. On the other side of Olympus Mons was Hellas Basin, a 7km deep crater on the southern highlands. It was speculated long ago an asteroid hit there, the force was so massive magma was pushed through the planet and out the other side, forming the triple peaks. 3. Olympus Mons is tall but relatively flat. On the summit you would be able to see the planet's curvature but not the edge of the mountain.
@@Chris-wq3pe Is that supposed to be an insult? Like, unless they went and learned this for themselves in person, the information is somehow less valid?
@Webberjo We call the internet as the trigger for the second Renaissance. When the printing press was invented, printed matter could be widely and cheaply distributed, so knowledge was no longer a privilege of the rich and elite of the society. The internet now made knowledge even more accessible. You no longer need to enrol for classes. You just need an internet connection to learn whatever you want to learn. The side effect though is over-information. Even Google isn't almighty. Most RUclips shorts are just facts they learnt from someone, and someone learnt it from someone else, and may sometimes gets misreported or distorted by the time it reaches you. The presenters don't care. Only view counts matters to them so that they can get their cash. You have to keep asking specialized questions, one after the other, then you'll get to discern myths from facts.
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.
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.
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
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.
Mons is less of a mountain and more of a bulge in the planet. The topographical prominence is very low, meaning you can barely tell it's a mountain at all because the elevation rise is so gradual.
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! )
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
Part of this has to do with Mars having lower gravity, which allows it to have taller structures. Earth's gravity applied to Olympus Mons might squish it down a fair bit.
I thought the rest of the world was full geographically astute big brains, unlike the uncultured, know-nothing Americans I constantly hear about online…. 🤔
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
@@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.
Sherpas are the ones who deserve to brag about climbing the tallest mountains! Not the ones who climb in huge lines. IDK I just think many people don't know what they go through or even know about them
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
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.
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
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.
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!
Y'all forgetting one thing: Olympus Mons is actually a volcano, not just a mountain. And there's a reason why such "mountains" can't be "built" here on the Earth, and that reason is the plate tectonic movements. Here on the Earth the plates are moving, which allows to the volcanos to spread the material the spew. But on the Mars there's no such thing, so this allows to a volcano to grow that much on one single spot.
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.
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.
For the introduction you could have said that olympus mountain is soon big that it was a place where all the Greeks use to come to witness the olympics
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
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.
100 years ago for the 1924 Mallory & Irvine believers (courageous Englishmen who died, probably heading back from a summit push; Mallory's body was found by a dedicated climbing team in 1999; whether they made it to the top is hard to say, unlikely but not impossible). But the confirmed summit-and-(obligatory)-return was made in 1953, by Tenzing (Nepalese-Indian Sherpa) and Hillary (Kiwi), so yes, its incredible that anyone made it at all - accomplished largely due to gas cylinders, a new invention circa 1920s (Mallory & Irvine being the first people to ever get that high since the beginning of life on Earth, 1st to use gas & the highest humans ever, till Tenzing & Hillary in 53). Remarkable that we live in this age, even little things, like that I can say this online and the world can see it.
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 RUclips 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
@@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 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
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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....
Im the first human in the universe to congratulate the first human in the future that climbs this beast. Congratulations!!!!🎉 Remember you heard it first from me. Nov 25 2024.
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
Keep in mind Mars’ atmosphere is exceptionally thin, meaning the mountain doesn’t experience normal weathering. Now I don’t know how much of a difference that would make, but my guess would be quite a lot.
"That we know of" Always loved and was intrigued by how we find things like this and are blown away by it but then don't truly know if that is the limit until we find the next biggest mountain
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.
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.
@@AndrewLimChoonTat 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.
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
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!
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.
I'd love to see a simulation where they put the actual mountain over the Earth, and you see it (from earth) from afar, being extremely huge compared to Mount Everest for example.
Actually earth can't sustain a mountain of that height... because of some sheer stress moduli physics that I am not well versed with....the maximum height is around 10 km.... anything taller than that would collapse probably ...So in earth it's not possible that a mountain touches ozone layer....
Fun Fact: Olympus Mons is taller than the distance between the Lowest point of the Mariana Trench (Lowest point of earths surface) and the peak of Everest
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.
As someone who has studied space since i was 2 and loved mars yes people cant grasp just how big olympus mons really is and its rediculous and i was pretty sure that olympus mons was 3 times the size of mt. Everest. Its just crazy how people dont understand how big onlympus mons is and aswell as thar olympus mons also stretches out of the mars' atmosphere
As you'd expect, lower gravity (it can get higher without collapsing or pulling back into the mantle), and there's no water erosion, only wind erosion.
People literally DIE from trying to get to the top of Mt. Everest. So, imagine like 200 years from now, Mars becomes habitable. Then, someone tries to climb just a FRACTION of Olympus Mons💀
Thank you for making this comparison with the Earth's tallest mountains. That really puts it in perspective. I did notice that on the graph of the three mountains together that it listed the height of Olympus Mons as 14 miles, not 16 miles like the video said.
@@priscillajimenez27 The difference in atmospheric pressure is not that significant. With a gravity of 37.5% that of Earth and with all other factors being equal, mountains could rise 2.67 times higher on Mars. On Earth, we have a crust over a soft mantle, so mountains would begin to sink if they grow too heavy. Mars' mantle cooled and is more solid, so sinking would be much less.
According to the chart shown on this vid, even the total height of Mount Everest and Maunakea add up to 19 kms compared to the 22.5 kms of Olympus Mons. Damn…
@@elchasqui6986 it was wild. Have you ever been there? Lol reading a sentence and then describing that experience as "insufferable" makes you sound like a person who hasn't suffered much. Why even comment just to say something negative? Just making the observation.
@@mesk412 you sound just as rattled if not more so resorting to making personal digs. Yeah, some of the ways in which the english language changes and is used differently is irritating, I'm far from alone in saying that
Bro the Martian mountaineering community is gonna go crazy
But it's just one volcano! Although I'm curious if we can land there
@@BogdanTestsSoftware Yes we can it's not active anymore since mars core cooled down ages ago.
@@no1dea261 Cooled, but still molten at the core.
It is still very hot deep within Mars.
@@cordongrouch9323 I never said anything about if it's molten or not you're reply is pointless.
@@no1dea261 *Your.
I added information, not a criticism.
I fail to see a problem in being helpful.
Fun fact: the peak of Olympus Mons is actually outside Mars' atmosphere, in space. That's how tall it is.
Depending on where you draw the line, Everest can be considered outside Earth's atmosphere.
@@reubenmanzo2054That's like saying the atmosphere could be underground.
@@watamatafoyu Can you breathe underground?
@@reubenmanzo2054 it has nothing to do with oxygen levels tf?😂
@@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.
The craziest part is that its so wide that it wouldnt even be a climb, it would be a crazy walk. You wouldnt even notice that you're going up
Great fact.
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!
@@drx1xym154 he didnt mean gravity just that its wide smh its about incline gradient
@@drx1xym154 Please put your fedora away
"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 😮
Other fun facts:
1. Olympus Mons grew so tall because of the weak Martian gravity. A mountain this tall on Earth would have collapsed in itself.
2. Olympus Mons and 2 other towering peaks protrude from the northern lowlands of Mars. On the other side of Olympus Mons was Hellas Basin, a 7km deep crater on the southern highlands. It was speculated long ago an asteroid hit there, the force was so massive magma was pushed through the planet and out the other side, forming the triple peaks.
3. Olympus Mons is tall but relatively flat. On the summit you would be able to see the planet's curvature but not the edge of the mountain.
someone knows how to use google. well done.
@@Chris-wq3pe Is that supposed to be an insult? Like, unless they went and learned this for themselves in person, the information is somehow less valid?
@Webberjo We call the internet as the trigger for the second Renaissance.
When the printing press was invented, printed matter could be widely and cheaply distributed, so knowledge was no longer a privilege of the rich and elite of the society.
The internet now made knowledge even more accessible. You no longer need to enrol for classes. You just need an internet connection to learn whatever you want to learn.
The side effect though is over-information. Even Google isn't almighty. Most RUclips shorts are just facts they learnt from someone, and someone learnt it from someone else, and may sometimes gets misreported or distorted by the time it reaches you. The presenters don't care. Only view counts matters to them so that they can get their cash.
You have to keep asking specialized questions, one after the other, then you'll get to discern myths from facts.
@@Chris-wq3pe of course. It's not just asking Google. It's asking the right questions that matter.
This one is taller than my Everest on earth
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.
Neither can you see base, it’d look flat if you were standing on top of the peak.
A true Tower of Babel...stretching into the heavens like a spiritual bridge to the beyond
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.
@@jennyanydots2389 I suppose with 38% the gravity as earth, that should help make Olympus Mons easier to climb as well.
@@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.
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
Why haven't we sent a rover to explore Olympus Mons??? It should be able to easily traverse the slope.
@@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.
@@MrTrevortxeartxewhy would anyone do that
The horizon on Mars is very close because Mars is only a third the size of earth.
So it’s a plateau
It actually extends past most of the Martian atmosphere.
Most of its non existent atmosphere? Then so do i 😂
@@J040PL7 mars does have a pretty significant atmosphere, that’s why it’s skies have color and when rockets or object fall to the planet, it burns.
@@JupiterVortex it has gasses floating around but the solar wind doesn't allow enough to group up to form an atmosphere.
@@J040PL7 Your post makes no sense.
There are dust storms; there is an atmosphere, however tenuous it my be.
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Think about it - most commercial airliners cruise at 39000ft or almost 12km up, that's only halfway up that Martian mountain
Damn
Hope it's not Boeing. Or it's doomed from the start. Thats a proven fact.
@@danielevans3932 You're on their kill list now.
Or just about the altitude planes like the U-2 and SR-71 flew
Damn that's high
To put it in perspective, passenger planes usually travel at a height of 32,000 ft (Everest is 29,000 ft) Olympus Mons is 71,850 ft at the peak.
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
And this mountain is on a planet that is half the size of Earth. That makes it even crazier!!
But what is the cruising altitude of passenger planes on Mars?
That's big
To put in perspective, UAP’s recorded by commander David fravor came down from 90,000 ft to sea level in less than a second…
You know it's big when it's visible from a telescope
That's what she said!! 😂😂😂😂
@@timb4351I honestly have no idea how it’s possible to take that phrase out of context
@@justinmenendez680 you must be blessed then
Exactly what I tell her when she says she needs one to find it.
These dudes confused “microscope” with “telescope”
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.
Yeah, it's about a 4.5 degree slope (assuming a perfect cone)
Yeah, just walking for days, then all of a sudden you just start getting real cold and sleepy 😂
Gravity weaker, lava could flow out more while still building up. But look at edges, there's cliffs. Outer flows broke off.
@@micahanglen4331 well likely never a cone, that lava not like earth's. Density different.
Put a radio tower on it. Better signal. But thats all. There's nothing there really for discovery
Mons is less of a mountain and more of a bulge in the planet. The topographical prominence is very low, meaning you can barely tell it's a mountain at all because the elevation rise is so gradual.
Even if they couldn't breathe, people would still try to climb that if it were here on earth.
No doubt, but I bet people would drive up it in special vehicles
It would at least get rid of flat earthers
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! )
@@grittedyep but it's kinda impossible to climb continuously maybe they'll take break and reach there in days or they probably use vehicles
I see what your point it; people are stupid..
😅
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
That's like how Yellowstone feels
@@andrewtan2598 You Ree Tar Dead son.
I was gonna say that looks like a big ass hill
@@sevman7 u ain't seen nothin' till u seen myanus with a strong herpes outbreak and no valtrex to calm it down.
Until the air pressure starts dropping real low.
Rest of the world : "oh hell, no, they're starting to measure things in Arizonas"
Yeah, like dress sizes in the USA
Bro news flash in the rest of the world we also use "the size of a football field" or the "the size of Austria."
In the UK everything is measured in terms of a double-decker bus, including food recipes
@@scobra5941 DAMN
😂😂
Part of this has to do with Mars having lower gravity, which allows it to have taller structures. Earth's gravity applied to Olympus Mons might squish it down a fair bit.
Same reason a mountain on a neutron star does not exceed one millimeter
Climbing on that mountain in mars would be literally the best view, since you would actually be in space
Getting zapped by all those lovely cosmic rays.
😂 stop it lol
apparently the width makes it ironically so flat the view is shit
true, if it wasn't for the no oxygen and freezing temperatures I'd love to be at the top
@@alkh3myst best way to go I guess
A mountain that climbs to the stars, that something I would hear in a D&D adventure.
It even goes way past the Martian atmosphere, you really could say it reaches the stars.
It becomes even more impressive when you realize how Small Mars is compared to Earth.
It always fascinates me. I saw a map with USA slapped on the picture of Mars and it basically covered the entire hemisphere from west to east.
Yea... Actually that's why it can be so big... Less gravity. Bigger planets habe shorter mountains due to gravity.
Mars atmosphere allows it
@@kaufmanat1lol yeah commenter is very dumb
Actually it makes sense bc of gravity
If Mars had a cloudy atmosphere like earth, Olympus Mons would stick out of it and be visible from space no matter the weather.
"About the size of Arizona"
98% of people in the world: "How big is that?"
95.5% 🤓
I thought the rest of the world was full geographically astute big brains, unlike the uncultured, know-nothing Americans I constantly hear about online…. 🤔
They don't matter 🇺🇸
As a fellow Arizonian, i have no idea how big AZ is, as ive never seen it from space
96% of the world's population isn't living in the US.
imagine placing a minecraft water bucket ontop and seeing it basically spread out infinitley.
That would be amazing
That would be legendary
You’re a genius Harry
Youd drown the universe, you mad mad person!
Yo, hit up Elon Musk ASAP
Casually giving mars the coolest mountain name ever
Hell yeah!
It's from cod infinite warfare
@@Yeetlord-sl7kk so true
Well, the planet is called _Mars_ (Ares), _Olympus Mons_ is literally Mount Olympus.
Aren't like all martion mountains like (name) monz
Olympus Mons: the Solar System’s Big Zit
Let's pop it
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
It would fall in on itself sure to plate tectonics
@@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
@@tobiast471 The Earths plates are racist towards mountains. Disgusting.
+ gravity would pull it back down. Despite being super strong granite, Everest and co are about at their (excuse pun) peak.
@@tobiast471 mars does have any plates?
Living on mars, the unemployed friend at 2pm on a tuesday "ya'll ready to go? The weather's great" 😂
yea and you know they'll leave at 2pm because they got up at noon.
Me: _Insert Spiderman laugh meme_
"You serious?"
Most Elon Musk Bro's are unemployed.
@@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.
Well now I feel bad for Martian sherpas too
Man I read this right in the moment I thought of some mars sherpa joke. Beat me to it🤣
Sherpas are the ones who deserve to brag about climbing the tallest mountains! Not the ones who climb in huge lines. IDK I just think many people don't know what they go through or even know about them
Bro, that is absolutely mind blowing. It’s a shame we can’t travel the universe and see all the wonders out there
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
*New fear unlocked
Since there is hardly any atmosphere on mars, you’d always need your space suit.
So?
@@tc2241 lol what??
You would need a space suit everywhere on Mars though.
*space suit*
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.
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.
From the deepest to the tallest IS STILL NOT BIG ENOUGH!
@@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
Every dad: I had to climb Olympus Mons on my way to the school and back
It's actually closer to 3 times taller than Mt Everest.16 miles high as opposed to Everest at 5.6 miles high.
*2.8
THANK YOU ! Thats what i thought too
Everest is 13 miles high. 5 +8. Because of the Marianas trench.
@@con_boy
what does the Marianas trench have to do with anything,
@JLD 55 because it's also part of the surface of the earth *face palm*
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.
You'd still have to rocket launch it fast enough to escape Mars gravity.
that is such a good point 😮😮
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.
Actual Fact: Everything you said is made up nonsense.
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.
Hotspots dont move
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!
Y'all forgetting one thing: Olympus Mons is actually a volcano, not just a mountain.
And there's a reason why such "mountains" can't be "built" here on the Earth, and that reason is the plate tectonic movements.
Here on the Earth the plates are moving, which allows to the volcanos to spread the material the spew. But on the Mars there's no such thing, so this allows to a volcano to grow that much on one single spot.
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.
That last sentence tho... 🤣🤣🤣
South is the land north is the sea, you messed up you're basic directions.
@@no1dea261 Better to mess up that instead of grammar, lolz
@@Scarletraven87 Hah, english is my third language while you can't even know basic directions, shame on you.
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.
That last bit about reaching through our ozone is wild. The idea that you could theoretically WALK TO SPACE 🤯
Right!? I wish we had REAL mountains like Mars does! What are these? Mountains for ants!?
Apparently Olympus Mons itself reaches into space, so just get a plane ticket to Mars and you could try it yourself C:
It ain't any different than walk on the Moon, you still would be subjected to Mars gravity
@@blokvader8283😸
Space is usually defined (on earth anyways) as 100km above sea-level.
Mountain this high will not be able to survive long on earth due to high gravity, which will induce land slides.
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.
Good point it won't probably that big on earth thru wind erosion and gravity
It would sink back into the mantle.
@@IreneSalmakis those are rhyolite plugs once the rest of the slops erode away
*mass wasting not landslide lol
For the introduction you could have said that olympus mountain is soon big that it was a place where all the Greeks use to come to witness the olympics
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
I and some friends had problems the first couple of days on a ski holiday to Vail. That's like foothills in comparison.
fisheads
Take some viagra, it helps
Calling a 1982 telescope “old school” was like a kick to the kanickies. I graduated high school in 82, I like to think of it as a few years ago.😢
@@dsm9785 I graduated 2016 and it still feels like yesterday. Time waits for no one.
“The future is here old man”
Literally a breathtaking Hike
Funny thing is that you don't actually need any climbing equipment to climb olympus mons, just keep walking until you reach it's peak.
haha witty 🤣
👏👏👏👏
I saw a fun fact that it breaches its atmosphere 💀
Only if it's on its mars*
😅
imagine we had a mountain here on earth that was so tall that no one had ever climbed it’s peak. that would make for some pretty cool lore.
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.
Mountains don't just spawn in and are instantly climbed bro. Lmao.
@@Certifier when did i say any of that lol. i simply said imagine.
@@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.
100 years ago for the 1924 Mallory & Irvine believers (courageous Englishmen who died, probably heading back from a summit push; Mallory's body was found by a dedicated climbing team in 1999; whether they made it to the top is hard to say, unlikely but not impossible). But the confirmed summit-and-(obligatory)-return was made in 1953, by Tenzing (Nepalese-Indian Sherpa) and Hillary (Kiwi), so yes, its incredible that anyone made it at all - accomplished largely due to gas cylinders, a new invention circa 1920s (Mallory & Irvine being the first people to ever get that high since the beginning of life on Earth, 1st to use gas & the highest humans ever, till Tenzing & Hillary in 53). Remarkable that we live in this age, even little things, like that I can say this online and the world can see it.
Hi admin, it is interesting, thank you for sharing this information, can you kindly text the book name about this history
You know some mountain climbing dude wants to climb that. 😂
And die on it! As many do on mount everest
Literally climb to space
Nah it would be more like a marathon
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 RUclips 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
Since it is so wide, most of its angles of inclination are comparatively smaller than those of most hills and mountains here on Earth.
Still towers over Everest. Also how do you know that the inclinations are smaller then that of everest?
@@jivejive8405 It's obvious from the picture itself. And also if we divide the width or length by height of each mountain, we can know it.
@@davidfernandez1992 Okay, just curious. I always thought it looked more like a plateau.
@@jivejive8405considering the size, even the peak point will be close to a small city in size.
@@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.
Just to point out, as someone who lives in Hawaii, that was not a picture of Mauna Kea.
sure, we're just here for size comparison actual photograph of that pineapple hump is irrelevant as majority of its body is underwater
@@lordjaashin lol alright dude
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
@@bentownsend4017”my mountain can beat up your mountain” 😂
@@hurshi3843 I have no mountain i live in england. From an unbiased perspective that shit is stupid
If it was on earth mountaineers would still try to climb it and reach the summit.
100%
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.
How long is 200 tears?
@@GenitalHogwarts that would be 6 apples sir
@@GenitalHogwarts200 years
2400 months
10428 weeks
73000 days
1752000 hours
105100000 minutes
6307000000 seconds
@@ssahjsue4354 hmm, maybe read what I said very carefully. OP originally said 200 TEARS, not YEARS. Go back and read my comment again, ok?
@@GenitalHogwarts What they said years
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.
As you collapse into unconsciousness from the lack of oxygen.
You also wouldn't be able to see the top at first because it's so far away.
What’s Super COOL is that everything you think or said is completely made up nonsense. It’s Mars. We know dick about Mars.
@@alkh3myst Dork YOU LOSE!
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.
@@kevinwilliams7252 I love when idiots speak with such confidence about things they know nothing about 😅
Bro is lost@@kevinwilliams7252
@@kevinwilliams7252 "If disappointment was a person"
Olympus Mons. Future capital of the fabricator general of mars. All hail the machine God.
Science: x2 taller than Everest.
Sherpa: Nothing I can't handle!
❤
I'm going to climb that thing, I don't care how many Sherpas it takes. I want to be the first man to climb it.
@@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.
Orrr you can just land the ship on the tip or near
@@chucknutly3290 Probably not a single one, walking on olympus mons will feel like walking on a flat road since its so wide.
bro left out how its already taller than the Martian atmosphere
What's that
Yup, you could literally *_walk_* to space on Mars.
@@kenlyle9576 the... atmosphere. on Mars
@@patootie3529 no way
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....
Im the first human in the universe to congratulate the first human in the future that climbs this beast. Congratulations!!!!🎉 Remember you heard it first from me. Nov 25 2024.
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.
interesting
A glass dome resort in the crater would be epic.
That sounds miserable.
@@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
@Zack 189 yeah, living in a glass bubble on a big dirt planet sounds lovely.
They made a documentary about the formation of Olympus Mons, it’s called
Raising Arizona
I need some Huggies
Lmao
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*Badum tiss 🥁
I'm baring 😂
The scale of the universe is just staggering
What is it contained in?
It freaks me out
the scale of the universe? that's scarcely relevant to this video
Keep in mind Mars’ atmosphere is exceptionally thin, meaning the mountain doesn’t experience normal weathering. Now I don’t know how much of a difference that would make, but my guess would be quite a lot.
Told my gf they measure from the bottom of the ocean and I measure from the back. Same logic
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From the tip of the buttchecks to the tip of the penis?
7 to 20 real quick
@@Wulfstan1938 7 to 20 inches.
damn😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
25 km is not TWICE the size of (almost) 9 km...
You right nerd its exactly 2.777778 times taller.
@@Whoareyoucallingso that's closer to thrice
@@anwardiggs8748 Especially because ALMOST means LESS than 9 km...
@@Whoareyoucalling nothing is exact
@@dezpotizmOFheaven Mad cuz bad at math.
Went to see Mauna Kea, it was gorgeous. Made you see just how insanely big out world can really be
Oh yeah? Well... I went to see Olympus Mons. It was breath-taking. 😅 🧑🏼🚀
@@stephengnb BARZ
"That we know of"
Always loved and was intrigued by how we find things like this and are blown away by it but then don't truly know if that is the limit until we find the next biggest mountain
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.
Well then that means we can easily drive a vehicle to the top?
And Mars' low gravity would make the climb easier
*Olympus Mons*
*Olympics Moms*
@@georgeofhamilton You triggered a ton of yo mama jokes in my pesky brain
Would be great to have this mountain Earth. We can finally sent repairman contractors to fix the ozone layer. Maybe build a home depot up there.
Imagine skiing down it
There would definitely be a Starbucks and a McDonald's up there.
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.
This is so underrated
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.
Sounds like the perfect spot to build a launch site for return trips
how do we get down?
@@mofi_lki It's actually a very gentle slope spread over 380 miles boy.
@@jennyanydots2389Yeah on one side we can literally see it
@@AndrewLimChoonTat 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.
You have no idea how glad I am that you mentioned Mauna Kea
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
Just imagine walking across Arizona you’d likely just ride a vehicle for this one
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!
I saw Mt. Ranier last week. It's huge. It's hard to fathom there's a mountain 5x that tall.
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.
A child climbing Olympus Mons would be a senior citizen collecting Social Security by the time he reached the mountain’s summit.
This is why I love space stuff. The sheer magnitude of not only space itself, but the numerous things we've discovered out there.
Makes you wonder how many things there are. Doesn't it?
@@FarisHananiright. Space is water.
esp.Uranus
Don't you mean "numerous things we have yet to discover?" 🤔
If you put pasta and antipasta on a plate together, shouldn’t they annihilate each other and leave chocolate cake in the void left over?
Someone should make a visualization of how it would look like from a persons pov that is at sea level.
Exactly
It would be nothing special, you would not even see it
@@velkylev4217 what?
@@jivejive8405yes it will feel like standing in a city, just plain as hell
like shit, actually, it's so wide that the slope is almost flat
It needs to be said Mars radius is a 3rd of Earth's, so proportionately this makes Olympus Mons even bigger when compared to Everest or Mauna Kea
"If olympus mons were here on earth-"
Mountain hiker: "New achievement need to be unlocked"
I'd love to see a simulation where they put the actual mountain over the Earth, and you see it (from earth) from afar, being extremely huge compared to Mount Everest for example.
Actually earth can't sustain a mountain of that height... because of some sheer stress moduli physics that I am not well versed with....the maximum height is around 10 km.... anything taller than that would collapse probably ...So in earth it's not possible that a mountain touches ozone layer....
It's so large you wouldn't be able to tell you were looking at a mountain. It would just look like a normal horizon to an observer.
@@bluewater82fr when I visited himalayas (which are a lot smaller than olympus) I first thought they were clouds when i saw from some good distance.
Fun Fact: Olympus Mons is taller than the distance between the Lowest point of the Mariana Trench (Lowest point of earths surface) and the peak of Everest
Mars mountain really said “mount everest, aint got no shit on me”🥶🔥👌🏻
HOOOO HOOOOOOOOO
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?
@@jennyanydots2389Olympus Mons has these huge cliffs on it's side though.
@@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.
Mmm i don't believe it did say that
As someone who has studied space since i was 2 and loved mars yes people cant grasp just how big olympus mons really is and its rediculous and i was pretty sure that olympus mons was 3 times the size of mt. Everest. Its just crazy how people dont understand how big onlympus mons is and aswell as thar olympus mons also stretches out of the mars' atmosphere
Olympus Mons is actually so tall, it extends beyond Mars' atmosphere, which would make it a VERY ideal telescope station spot.
It would also make a neat space port
i bet there's gonna be one there in the next century
Gravity wins. Pulls down the mountains.
That's just it! Mars' gravity is much lower than ours and is probably the reason Mons is so high!
@@frankcutugno3576 also a meteorite hit it on the opposite side planet (so just below the mountain) prob related
@@mariotheundyingI wonder how it works, does it mean mars core is not very rock solid?
@@siapaya711nothing except stellar remnants are really 'hard' at astronomical scales, smash two planets together and they splash like water
As you'd expect, lower gravity (it can get higher without collapsing or pulling back into the mantle), and there's no water erosion, only wind erosion.
Not even that. As wind is atmosphere is 1% of earth.
Gravity is a theory...
Look up Hibbeler Productions.
People literally DIE from trying to get to the top of Mt. Everest. So, imagine like 200 years from now, Mars becomes habitable. Then, someone tries to climb just a FRACTION of Olympus Mons💀
Bro, it’s gonna take at least 400 years before we inhabit mars
Despite it being so tall, it's also incredibly wide. There isn't much of a climb, it'd be more akin to an intense walk.
"The places you cant go but they went anyway" 😂
That would be one heck of a space port.
The Fang in WH40K, but even fictionally, its artificial.
Arizona: "Thanks for the shout out, now stay out"
Who tf actually wants to live in that hell hole lmao
Imagine when people start living on Mars, Olympus Mon would be like Beverly hills but on mars
So that is why Mars lost its atmosphere. The mountain poked through it and caused a rift in the atmosphere
are you being serious? did you fail middle school physics or something
Where did u take that info from 💀💀💀
delusional
I swear in like 500 years, there will be more bodies on this mountain than every mountain on earth combined.
smh
having played KSP, it is the perfect spot for a space base, all that free dV!
People's ideas on Earth: "lets build a space elevator"
Mars peeps: "we can just come and go from Olymous peak"
Thank you for making this comparison with the Earth's tallest mountains. That really puts it in perspective. I did notice that on the graph of the three mountains together that it listed the height of Olympus Mons as 14 miles, not 16 miles like the video said.
Less gravity, taller mountains.
how's the air pressure?
@@priscillajimenez27 The difference in atmospheric pressure is not that significant. With a gravity of 37.5% that of Earth and with all other factors being equal, mountains could rise 2.67 times higher on Mars. On Earth, we have a crust over a soft mantle, so mountains would begin to sink if they grow too heavy. Mars' mantle cooled and is more solid, so sinking would be much less.
@@priscillajimenez27 at the base, around earth’s 100000 feet pressure. At the top, pretty much a vacuum.
I was going to say that. Wouldn’t earth gravity compress Olympus Mons?
No no less gravity, wider mountain and ofc taller ones
is the soundtrack a specific music? loved it
It’s just space ambient music. There’s tons of different versions to suite your liking
According to the chart shown on this vid, even the total height of Mount Everest and Maunakea add up to 19 kms compared to the 22.5 kms of Olympus Mons. Damn…
you would literally have to walk for days. in a stright line. or weeks. thats frickin crazy
Just get a helicopter bro, easy
@@Tassooowmost helicopters couldn’t go that high due to the air density though.
@@okipullup3367 no helicopters since it reaches space
Hiking up this thing would take days, but the climb would be a legendary quest!
Years not days
Arizona . . . days? way higher than anything on earth.
Months
*months
Olympus Mons is so huge it can fit an entire Olympus Mons inside!
Mauna Kea is amazing. You can drive right to the top, taking you from sea level to about 14,000 feet in an hour. It's wild.
everything is "WILD" these days apparently...so insufferable
@@elchasqui6986 sorry you didn't like the choice of adjective. You really must have suffered reading that. Lol "insufferable"
@@mesk412 just making the observation.
@@elchasqui6986 it was wild. Have you ever been there? Lol reading a sentence and then describing that experience as "insufferable" makes you sound like a person who hasn't suffered much. Why even comment just to say something negative? Just making the observation.
@@mesk412 you sound just as rattled if not more so resorting to making personal digs. Yeah, some of the ways in which the english language changes and is used differently is irritating, I'm far from alone in saying that
Who will be the first human to climb it?
The first human to climb it will be yo mama
@@woodykusaki9970 you a 9 year old
@@woodykusaki9970 that would be epic
@@Pokémaniac94 😂👍
I did it last week already.
It was okay.