Olympus Mons

This article is about the mountain on Mars in Latin, For other uses, see Olympus (disambiguation). For the mountain on Earth in English name, see Mount Olympus. Olympus Mons (Latin, "Mount Olympus") is the tallest known volcano and mountain in our solar system. It is located on the planet Mars at approximately . Before space probes confirmed its identity as a mountain, Olympus Mons was known to astronomers as the albedo feature, Nix Olympica ("Snows of Olympus"); since the late 19th century, however it had been suspected that it was mountainous.
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