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Olympus Mons

tallest volcano on Mars
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Olympus Mons
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Summary

Olympus Mons is a shield volcano[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of shield volcano entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (20,906 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Discoverer or inventor: Mariner 9[3]
  • Instance of: mons[4]
  • Named after: Mount Olympus[5]
  • Location: Amazonis quadrangle[6], Tharsis quadrangle[7]
  • Commons category: Olympus Mons[8]
  • Located on astronomical body: Mars[9]
  • Inception: -3830000000-00-00T00:00:00Z[10]
  • Located in/on physical feature: Tharsis[11], Tharsis Montes[12]
  • Official name: Olympus Mons[13]
  • Different from: Mount Olympus[14], Mont Olympe[15]
  • Elevation above sea level: 21,229 m[16]
  • Area: 300,000 km²[17]
  • Height: 21.9 km[18]
  • Radius: 305.065 km[19]
  • Diameter: 610.13 km[20]
  • Age estimated by a dating method: 3.830 gigaannum[21]

Why It Matters

Olympus Mons has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22] It is known by 28 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]

Related Entities

Mariner 9 Mount Olympus

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . diss.fu-berlin.de. Retrieved . diss.fu-berlin.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . mars.jpl.nasa.gov. Retrieved . mars.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . mars.jpl.nasa.gov. Retrieved . mars.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . pubs.usgs.gov. pubs.usgs.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . Worlds on Fire: Volcanoes on the Earth, the Moon, Mars, Venus and Io. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov. planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [23] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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