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38. Sapas Mons and Olympus Mons
PLANETARY COMPARISONS
38. Sapas Mons and Olympus Mons

This Magellan SAR image is of Sapas Mons, one of the larger venusian volcanos, shown at the same scale as a Viking photographic image mosaic of Olympus Mons, the largest volcano on Mars. The two volcanos are comparable in diameter, but Sapas Mons rises only 4 kilometers above the surrounding plains while Olympus Mons is more than 20 kilometers high.

Olympus Mons image obtained from the Mars Multi-Scale Map, Calvin Hamilton (Los Alamos National Laboratory).

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