Earth  Planets and Moons  ID: 2870

Earth-Mars Volcano Comparisons: True Color Olympus Mons over Elevation Color-Mapped Earth Bathymetry with True Color Land Features

Visualizations by Alex Kekesi Released on April 22, 2004
Despite the 2:1 relative size difference between Earth and Mars, the Martian volcano, Olympus Mons, dwarfs Earth's Mauna Loa, Hawaii volcano. When measured from the ocean floor, Mauna Loa is approximately 10km. high compared to Olympus Mons at 23km. In this animation, Olympus Mons obstructs the view of Mauna Loa, but gives the viewer a good perspective of the overall size of this giant volcano. This animation is match-framed to animations #2864 through #2872.
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Animation starts with a distant view of Earth and zooms down to Olympus Mons laying over the Hawaiian Islands.
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Olympus Mons lays over the Hawaiian Islands.

Visualization Credits

Alex Kekesi (Global Science and Technology, Inc.): Lead Animator
Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC): Animator
Marte Newcombe (GST): Animator
Gregory Neumann (Johns Hopkins University): Scientist
James Garvin (NASA/HQ): Scientist
Herbert Frey (NASA/GSFC): Scientist
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, and Virginia Butcher (SSAI)

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Missions:
Mars Global Surveyor - MGS
Terra
Viking

Data Used:
Viking/Images/True Color
1976/06/19-1980/08/17
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MGS/MOLA/Topography
1997/09/15-2001/01/31
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GTOPO30
Model - USGS
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Terra/MODIS/Blue Marble Clouds
2001/06-2001/09
Credit:
The Blue Marble data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC).
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Terra/MODIS/Blue Marble
2001/06-2001/09
Credit:
The Blue Marble data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC).
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This item is part of this series:
Earth-Mars Comparisons

Keywords:
SVS >> For Educators
SVS >> Solar System >> Planets >> Mars >> Olympus Mons
SVS >> Earth >> Volcanoes >> Mauna Loa
SVS >> Earth-Mars Comparisons
NASA Science >> Earth
NASA Science >> Planets and Moons