Olympus_Mons_and_Hawaii_to_scale.png
Summary
Description Olympus Mons and Hawaii to scale.png |
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.
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Date | 2/5/97 | ||||
Source | http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/volc/extraterrestrial.html | ||||
Author | USGS | ||||
Permission
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Source:
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/volc/extraterrestrial.html