How Mountains In Our Solar System Compare [Infographic]

Good luck scaling Olympus Mons on Mars

Hawaii’s Mauna Kea is a gigantic mountain—but it doesn’t quite stack up to some of the other landforms in our solar system. Here’s a look at our neighbors’ most impressive peaks.

Lillian Steenblik Hwang

_This article originally appeared in the May 2014 issue of _Popular Science.

 
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