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About This File
Olympus Mons is the largest volcano in our solar system and is locatedon the planet Mars. I took the satelite photo of Olympus Mons andedited it a bit (to remove shadows etc) and to attempt to smooth theterrain out a bit to allow water and less hills.
About Olympus Mons:
Olympus Mons is the largest volcano in our solar system and is locatedon the planet Mars. In reality Olympus Mons is exremely flat and issurrounded by a cliff nearly 6 km high in some areas and in other areasis completely covered by huge lava veins that feed the still activevolcano. The volcano also seems to have odd looking "wrinkles" allaround it. These wrinkles and extremely high scarp make up whatscientists call the Olympus Mons Aureole. The volcano has collapsed inon itself multiple times because of its extreme height and weight.Three easily seen collapses can be seen on the rendered map and on theoriginal satelite image located on the south side, the east side andthe center of the volcano.
Future Edits:
In future versions Olympus Mons' Aureole will be included. (As soon as I can figure out how to remove the shadows in Photoshop!)
Any comments are welcome as well as suggestions.
The original satelite imagery that this map was based on can be viewed here: http://www.marssurterre.net/mars/olympus-mons.jpg
An artist's rendition of Olympus Mons is available here:
http://www.hcc.hawaii.edu/~pine/OlyMons.jpg
and here:
http://www.firstinspired.com/spaceprime/space/olympus.jpg
Thank Yous:
MallowTheCloud
Flamesrock
NASA
