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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A volcano, about 25 km (16 mi) high, on Mars. It is the highest known mountain in the solar system.
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- proper noun planetology An
extinct volcano andprominent feature on theplanet Mars , notable as the highestmountain in thesolar system (elevation: 27kilometers ).
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He was amused because I had written a mountain-climbing story about Olympus Mons, and recent results had shown that the escarpment of Olympus Mons was not as steep as thought before; 'you could ride a bicycle up it,' Clarke said to me.
2010 Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist: Jones, Mieville, Roberts, Robinson, Theroux, and Woodring Omnivoracious 2010
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Jerry Pournelle: In Birth of Fire I made it a lot cheaper than that, by dropping nuclear weapons down Olympus Mons and waking the volcanoes.
Waking the volcanoes: 1997 interview with authors Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle Paul 2009
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Mangala Fossae is approximately 1000 km long, located south-west of the volcanic region Tharsis, where the highest known volcano in the Solar System, Olympus Mons, is located.
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New research shows that Mars 'massive volcano, Olympus Mons, may have pockets of ancient, liquid water trapped beneath the mountain.
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Swooping in over Olympus Mons, the largest volcano on Mars, you see lava flows and the Pangboche Crater.
Dad2059's Webzine of Science Fiction, Science Fact and Esoterica 2009
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"What we were analyzing was the structure of Olympus Mons, why it's shaped the way it is,"
DailyTech News Feed 2009
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New research shows that Mars 'massive volcano, Olympus Mons, may have pockets of ancient, liquid water trapped beneath the mountain.
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The volcano in question, Olympus Mons, is around three times the height of Mount Everest on Earth, and may have water-formed clay.
DailyTech News Feed 2009
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Mangala Fossae is approximately 1000 km long, located south-west of the volcanic region Tharsis, where the highest known volcano in the Solar System, Olympus Mons, is located.
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That’s a large 270 miles across and ancient volcano in a region many miles from where they made their initial discoveries, but close to Olympus Mons, the thirteen-mile-high volcano and mountain that is the largest in the solar system, nearly three times taller than Mount Everest.
First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011
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