Solar System's Largest Known Volcano Imaged

October 23, 2000   From the BBC: "Laser beams bounced off the surface of Mars have produced this unique view of the largest volcano in the Solar System....  Called Olympus Mons, it is 27 km (17 miles) tall, three times the height of Mt Everest, and twenty times wider than it is high."  Article.

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Olympus Mons, the largest volcano in the Solar System