Great Mountains of the Solar System Options

[RNeuhaus]

tty: Good, there are many differents ways of comparisions!

1) The other angle of perspective of comparision: From the bottom of mountain surface to the peak:

The Hawaian volcan: Mauna Loa is considered the "monarch of mountains." It is the largest volcano and the largest single mountain of any kind in the world. It is 97 kilometers (60 miles) long, 48 kilometers (30 miles) wide, and rises about 8,742 meters (28,680 feet) from its base on the sea floor. (They rise an average of 4,572 meters (15,000 feet) to reach sea level from their base on the sea floor with the highest (Mauna Loa) climbing an additional 4,170 meters (13,680 feet) above sea level.):

Then, we have three others comparisions:

2) The distance between the center of Earth and the peak: Chimborazo o Huascaran.
3) The distance from the extremes high and low of the Earth surface (peak and fossa): Everest.
4) The distance between the sea of level and the peak: Everest.

It is incredible about the Volcano Pele from one of the Jupiter's moon: Io.

Pele is one of the largest visible volcanic features on Io and was also the first active volcano discovered on another world. Pele was name after the legendary Hawaiian volcano goddess. The large red ring that is in a heart shape in the Voyager images was formed from sulfur fallout originating from Pele's plume and reaches more than 1,300 kilometers (808 miles) in diameter. Pele's plumes have been observed to reach heights of 400 kilometers.

Picture of Pele Volcano

P.D.Does anyone know what is the distance from the center to Earth to the sea level at the latitud: S 9 06. where Huascaran mountain is located.

"....Uranus and Neptune are thought to be "ice giants", right? ..."
That's a term that's being used, but I prefer the term "Vapor Giants" as opposed to Gas Giants (Jupiter and Saturn). Though the visible atmospheres of Uranus and Neptune are Hydrogen/Helium rich, the bulk of the "envelope" surrounding a high density core is CH4, NH3 and OH2 (H20). These are all condensable vapors and the visible clouds are presumably methane clouds.

There are no solid surfaces on or within either the gas giants or the vapor giants. Moons and terrestrial planets are made of "geology". The giants are made of "weather"

Interesting comments. These Gas Giants are like a very smooth balls. Abscense of mountains and hence they can roll as bowling ball!

Rodolfo

[ljk4-1]

This Web page:

http://rst.gsfc.nasa.gov/Sect19/Sect19_12.html


Has an artist's rendition of various mountains together for size comparison:

http://rst.gsfc.nasa.gov/Sect19/olimpys.jpg


And how big the Tharsis region is compared to the United States:

http://rst.gsfc.nasa.gov/Sect19/sred_S10.jpg