Olympus_Mons_and_Hawaii_to_scale.png


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English: Scale representation of en:Olympus Mons and en:Hawaii . Olympus Mons is a shield volcano on Mars, and the largest volcano in the solar system. Like the Hawaiian shields on Earth, it is built over millions of years by highly fluid basalt flows, but on a much more massive scale, as this scaled image shows.
Date 2/5/97
Source http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/volc/extraterrestrial.html
Author USGS
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This image is in the public domain in the United States because it only contains materials that originally came from the United States Geological Survey , an agency of the United States Department of the Interior . For more information, see the official USGS copyright policy .

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