olympus mons is the name of the highest mountain on mars.
olympus mons is the name of the highest mountain on mars.
what is the name of the highest mountain on mars?
olympus mons
nasa continued the mariner program with another pair of mars flyby probes, mariner 6 and 7. they were sent at the next launch window, and reached the planet in 1969. during the following launch window the mariner program again suffered the loss of one of a pair of probes. mariner 9 successfully entered orbit about mars, the first spacecraft ever to do so, after the launch time failure of its sister ship, mariner 8. when mariner 9 reached mars in 1971, it and two soviet orbiters (mars 2 and mars 3, see "mars probe program" above) found that a planet-wide dust storm was in progress. the mission controllers used the time spent waiting for the storm to clear to have the probe rendezvous with, and photograph, phobos. when the storm cleared sufficiently for mars' surface to be photographed by mariner 9, the pictures returned represented a substantial advance over previous missions. these pictures were the first to offer more detailed evidence that liquid water might at one time have flowed on the planetary surface. they also finally discerned the true nature of many martian albedo features. for example, nix olympica was one of only a few features that could be seen during the planetary duststorm, revealing it to be the highest mountain (volcano, to be exact) on any planet in the entire solar system, and leading to its reclassification as olympus mons.
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k2 is the world's second highest mountain.









































section::::kangchenjunga.









































kangchenjunga is the third highest mountain in the world.









































section::::lhotse.









































lhotse is the fourth highest mountain in the world.









































section::::makalu.









































makalu is the world's fifth highest mountain.









































section::::cho oyu.









































cho oyu is the world's sixth highest mountain.









































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section::::dhaulagiri i.









































dhaulagiri i is the world's seventh highest mountain.









































section::::manaslu.









































manaslu is the world's eighth highest mountain.









































section::::nanga parbat.









































nanga parbat is the world's ninth highest mountain.









































section::::annapurna i.









































annapurna i is the world's 10th highest mountain.









































section::::gasherbrum i.
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