In recent decades, humanity has made tremendous advances in the exploration of the Solar System and has discovered many amazing objects. Today, we will talk about three records of our system.
The highest mountain — Olympus Mons on Mars.
While Mount Everest, the highest point on our planet, stands just under 9 km from its base, Olympus Mons on Mars towers at 26 km. It may surprise some that on a planet half the diameter of Earth, the highest point is almost three times higher than ours, but this phenomenon is quite…
