Doggedly searching for the crux of the biscuit.
Pictures from Europe's Mars Express Orbiter
This is Olympus Mons. At 22 kilometers (14 miles) tall, it's three times the height of Mt. Everest. It measures 550 km (342 miles) across, covering an area about half the size of Spain. The color pictures are looking down into the caldera, which is three km deep itself.
TrackBackCan you imagine the force of the explosion that created this?
Kaboom.
Posted by: apostropher at February 16, 2004 02:49 AMKaboom is right, could you imagine trying to stand up straight when it blew? The ground would most likely make you fall on your ass...LoL
Posted by: Ian Lehr at April 8, 2004 04:15 PMBy the look of the slope and the shape of the caldera, I would say that there was not much "kaboom" involved. If so, it would have a shape more like Mt. St. Helens. But the shape is more like the Mauna Loa volcano, which "fountains and flows" more than it "kabooms".
Posted by: nobodyspecial at January 31, 2005 04:02 PMman da biggest volcano is Mauna Loa which is on the islands of Hawaii in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.....
Posted by: andy at July 4, 2005 11:54 PMpffffft...i made that volcano...all it took was ducttape,glue, and paper mache
Posted by: nick at May 14, 2006 02:33 PMYoU aRe AlL wRoNg ThE bIgGeSt Is On ThE sUn. ItS a BaLl Of FiRe.....LoL
Posted by: Benny at May 24, 2006 01:04 AMwhat is the tallest volcano type is it sheild composite or the cilindercone one???????
Posted by: bob shackalackadingdong at June 9, 2006 11:32 AMNo idea, but I start chuckling every time I see your handle in the Recent Comments section.
Posted by: apostropher at June 9, 2006 06:29 PMAlso, I've said it out loud about two dozen times now and "bob shackalackadingdong" is well on its way to becoming my personal mantra.
Posted by: apostropher at June 9, 2006 06:33 PMI was thinking health, but hotties works too.
Hoagies?
Posted by: M/tch M/lls at June 9, 2006 11:05 PMi dont it would be kaboom... it would be more like KABOOM!!! (",)
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Posted by: Mr.X at December 7, 2006 12:03 PMwho cares about these comments!!!!!!! we want to know the name!!!!!!!
Posted by: ash at February 12, 2007 09:04 AMi hate to break this to you guys but Olympus Mons has been dormat for ages
Posted by: louis at May 14, 2007 02:22 PMthe biggest volcano on earth is super volcano in yellow stone park it is under yellow stone. if it blows up thier will be ash that will cover the whole planet and will cause another ice age and it will kill most the peole in the world . scientist think it will blow up soon.we will also proble see mounte st.helen erupt in are life time and mabe even 5 more my science teacher said so.
Posted by: daisy at December 24, 2007 02:07 PMyes it will put ash but not the ice age coz the sun will still heat up earth
Posted by: calum at January 13, 2008 07:16 PMcala's brother doesn't seem to be quite as bright as she is.
Posted by: M/tch M/lls at January 13, 2008 09:39 PMits awesome i wish to be an astronaut one day or visit nasa one day iam 11 years old, a had an idea for nasa ad i sent it but they didnt reply
Posted by: at May 25, 2008 07:39 PMGod is an awesome desingner right and can you believe that some people think that all of this just happened by accident
Posted by: o at October 13, 2008 12:45 PMOlympus Mons is a shield volcano that extrudes Basalt, this means it dosnt explode at all, lava runs down the sides which makes it the gradual sloping shape. If it had steep sides, or was just a caldera by itself (like lake taupo in New Zealand) then it would be the explosive sort of volcano. (needs a complete differnt sort of lava too by the way..)
And Mt St Hellens is not as silicic as Chaiten volcano in Chile, which just erupted in may. This could be the most explosive volcano weve ever seen, possibly as big as Krakatoa or Taupo even, if it continues to erupt and then forms a caldera.
That would be 'boom', and cause major global cooling probably.
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Posted by: Eric Kenner at October 27, 2008 08:34 PMwhat is the size of this volcano and how does it comapre in size from the largest volcanoes in earth?? xx
Posted by: jodie at February 20, 2009 12:18 AM