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Frosty peaks at Olympus Mons
June 18 , 2024
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- Two spacecraft orbiting Mars have discovered water frost atop towering volcanoes near the Red Planet's equator.
- They found the frost on the Tharsis volcanoes, the tallest volcanoes in the Solar System.
- The frost is only as thick as a human hair - about one-hundredth of a millimetre thick - but covers a vast area.
- This amounts to about 150,000 tonnes of water freezing and evaporating during the cold seasons on Mars.
- It is equivalent to roughly 60 Olympic swimming pools.
- The Tharsis region of Mars is home to numerous volcanoes.
- It is including the Olympus Mons, and the Tharsis Montes: Ascraeus, Pavonis and Arsia Mons.
- Many of the volcanoes in this region are as big as or much bigger than Mount Everest on Earth.
- Olympus Mons is three times as tall as Everest.
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