Climbing Olympus Mons - Tallest Planetary Mountain in the Solar System
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Olympus Mons is a gigantic volcano on Mars. With 21km in height and a surface area comparable to many countries it is by far the tallest planetary mountain in the Solar System. So than what would it be like to climb this volcano? What would you see? Watch the video to find out.
Into, outro and other clips in the video were made with Space Engine.
Music:
1. Kevin MacLeod - Ritual
2. Kevin MacLeod - Martian Cowboy
3. Hydra - Huma-Huma
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Here to clear things up since while reading comments it came to my attention that some of the things I said were misunderstood.
Q: How did you calculate that the average time that light needs to reach Mars from Earth is 12 minutes?
A: *Average distance* between Mars and Earth is *225 million kilometers* , meaning *12 minutes* is the average amount of time that light travels between Mars and Earth. I know that Mars is as well 12 light-minutes away from the Sun, that is *not* the distance that I was referring to, I was *specifically* referring to the *average distance between Mars and Earth* , this was *not* a mix up of those two distances. (225m km ÷ 300k km/s = 750s = 12.5 minutes)
Q: What does it mean that the gravity of Mars is 2.5 times lower? How can it be 2.5 times lower if you are multiplying by 2.5?
A: If 2.5 x 3.72 m/s² (gravity of Mars) is barely around 9.82 m/s² (gravity of Earth), then 2.5 times is approximately how many times the gravity of Earth is stronger and *how many times the gravity of Mars is lower* , it is just *inverse rational* with which you are *100%* able to convey the difference between the strength across. ( 9.8 ÷ 2.5 ≈ 3.7 then 2.5 x 3.7 ≈ 9.8 ) the symbol ≈ means approximately.
Q: Weight is measured in newtons, not in kilograms, why did you show weight in kilograms?
A: *I was specifically talking about what the weighing scale would show on Mars* . Weighing scales show your weight in kilograms, (kgf, kilogram-force), they determine your weight by the amount of force that is applied on them, because of that weighing scales on Mars would universally show your weight in kgf as 2.5 times less.
Q: Why did you compare Olympus Mons with Mount Everest, when there is Mauna Kea?
A: *Because both Olympus Mons and Mount Everest have the highest elevation points from the reference points with which they are measured* , even if we measure them from the lowest point on Mars and Earth, they *still* have the highest elevation points at around 30 km for Olympus Mons and 19 km for Mount Everest. Also, for simplicity, everyone has heard of Mount Everest and knows that from the sea level to the top it takes the spot for height. Olympus Mons and every other elevation on the surface of Mars is *measured by how much it is above datum* which is base/reference point from which it is measured similar to how *sea level is our reference point here* for Mount Everest and every other elevation, *the reference point is not the lowest point* on Mars, which is why Olympus Mons is considered to be 21 km in height and *not* around 30 km. Olympus Mons and Mount Everest are comparable since they are both the tallest relative to their reference point. Mauna Kea is indeed the tallest from its base to peak at around 10 km in height, but the majority of the volcano is actually underwater. Now we can also consider Chimborazo to be the tallest if we measure the height from the center of our planet, it is all really just a matter of from what point do we start to measure the mountain.
Q: What is the color of the martian atmosphere really?
A: The color most of the time is slightly orange since most of the time there are lots of dust particles floating around on the surface of Mars.
I edited out a few sequences in the video which seemed to cause the most confusion.
Interesting video, lovely effort. But, have U seen the "Face on Mars" clip by the Voyager I think, and the ESA photos of Mars... BTW what's the meaning of Astral???
I'm gonna have to look up mount Chimborazo sometime, now you got me curious. 😁
Wait you can edit out things IN the video after you uploaded it?????
Like always just another animation... you know everything and yet you have never been there... 225 milions km away and you show us surface of Mars from above... man until when you going to lie us?
I am still not able to fully comprehend the fact that Mars has the tallest planetary mountain in the Solar System and it is just a cake walk to climb that mountain in comparison of Mount Everest on Earth where its path is literally littered with the bodies of departed mountain climbers who now works as the markers on the hike !
This kinda sucks if I has to be honest !
Imagine this video for Martians but about Everest
“It’s tiny but it’s hella sharp and your weight will be more than double so you can barely move”
@@sebode87 Wow! He's cringe? Maybe. But step into our shoes and read your own comment! HA. 2.5 times more cringe. Also a lick of pitty for you in there by the way. 😛😢
@@sebode87 lol, what a pompous turd. Cringe level 1000. We love irony.
Cait Sith It’s called evolution, and you’re two generations behind
Cait Sith Orrrrr evolution
Cait Sith you Guys lost the war we can speak English how we want pusst
I can't fathom how incredible those 8km cliffs would look from the ground
Its maybe not the cliffs like u would imagined. Its wouldn't looks like 90° Canyon
@@dickyarjuna1566 cliffs don’t necessarily have to be 90 degrees steep
@@titan9259 still, we wouldn't be able to see the bigger picture of it.
@@dickyarjuna1566 there probably are mountain-sized piles of debris just below the steep cliffs
so
the slope is probably more like 50 degree most of the way up . . . altho 7kms of that would still be realy hard to climb
And what if you jumped from there? Would you survise the fall? Can some one calculate terminal velocity at mars? We would accelerate slower but maybe lack of air would cancel it out and we would reach higher terminal velocity than at earth?
Imagine climbing to the top of Olympus Mons just to float out into space...
lol
Lmao
You wouldn't though I don't think. It is extremely thin atmosphere up there basically vacuum. But wouldn't you need horizontal velocity to actually float? Otherwise you would just be very light up there I think?
When do we leave?
Anybody who can do this is 2.5 times smarter as well.
rookie mistake. everyone knows to just land at the top
Read the title
@@linoluvinn Rookie mistake. Everyone knows to read only but a half of a title before watching the video and commenting.
@@DogMeatDelicious ok?
@@linoluvinn Rookie mistake. You backed yourself up without realising some people aren't born with a sense of humor.
@@DogMeatDelicious yup, keep talking
Height is 2.5 times taller than Mt. Everest...Mars has 2.5 times lower gravity than Earth. Nice parallel!
No doubt!
It's not an accident. Both are close to the largest deviation from spherical shape that their planetary gravities allow. If they grew significantly more than that, their highest parts would collapse below that limit.
That's a curious way to describe the measurement of gravity. Mars has approximately 2/5ths of Earth's surface gravity. "2.5 times lower" is a weird hybrid, combining multiplication and subtraction. Would we say that a 5m tree has 2 times lower height than a 10m tree? No. We would say it has half the height (5/10 = 1/2) or 0.5 times the height.
Everest's base is some 17km below its peak, too.
Maybe they both are lovers that we don't know
10:54 Olympus Mons looks like a pimple of Mars from afar
One that's meant to be squeezed
Looks like a nipple
@@carlosguzman-jj7mo that's hot
@@gaganhk8176 😂🤣
Omg it really does
Just imagine being in a different planet...that’s crazy knowing that your on a different PLANET...that’s just insane
If you showed a caveman an iPhone or a Tesla car they would have the same reaction, it seems amazing just because it's so far into the future. But even that will become common place in the far future centuries from now.
@@Nutty151 i'm just so curious what will happend in the next 1000-5000 years so bad. Too bad life is short :( 😭😭
Gabriel Malgapo yeah😩
DONTRA HICKS that’s what I thought in my head like there is now way we landed on the moon in 1960 but we can barely land there now and we haven’t even Came close to mars? You’re right dude it’s all bs everyone is just brainwashed by the government and these so called “science” teachers
You're*
youtube is very smart by giving us science lessons during quarantine, this was way better than lessons at school
TH-cam is always better than school
Mmm on TH-cam you can't learn properly, a TH-cam video can give you the interest about a topic but if you wanna really study that topic you have to use a "classic" method.
Dreksler Astral has been schooling us way before the quarantine..
@@jalgames6582 not really cause i learned how nuclear bombs work and hydrogen ive learned physics and other stuff
Then if you hate school then tell ur mom
Hey guys - I'm stuck in quarantine but I just climbed the tallest mountain in the solar system.
The internet does have its uses!
Maybe with virtual reality
It’s quite the *Sisyphean* task.
@@zeitgeist2point087 Thanks. Don't be a *Stranger* now.
You travel the world without ever lifting a foot. Minecraft earth 1:1 scale.
has it been eight months since quarantine. jesus…
I am not overweight
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I am on wrong planet
Suraj Kumar Mundra, little big planet.
If there’s fat over flowing on your body like icecream sundae... then you are over mass.
Lol. Good point. I'm not overweight either. At least according to Mars. Let's move.
"I'm not fat, I'm just big boned"
- Big Smoke
Suraj Kumar Mundra You’d still be overweight though. The typical weight would simply change. I know you’re joking lol. But, unfortunately, those of us who could lose a few pounds still would need to do so on other planets to be considered typical.
“You can’t just shoot a hole in the surface of Mars...”
Bet
Rip and tear intensifies
X to doubt
Climbs into BFG10k, beam me down scotty
BFG 10k intensifies..
It’s very scary to even imagine being on another planet . Everything that you ever knew exist millions of miles away. No law as we know exist. Scary!!
I had that feeling when I was stuck overnight, freezing on Ben Nevis. Nobody for miles, so cold the moisture in my sleeping bag froze, I was going to die and there was nothing I could do about it except make sure when they found my body I'd don'e what I could. Obviously, I survived but it did put the rest of my life into perspective.
Love the otherworldly and futuristic sound of the background music.
Jack Mustard, yeah i agree, its good
Remembers me of "Moonbase alpha"
Dreksler astral you are the only one enthusiastic astronomer which i love the most.
@Madara Uchiwa Now ok Brother
Madara Uchiwa why hate? It is a compliment.
Same
Madara Uchiwa *COVID-19
He is a non English speaking pal.
"There are not many accessible trails to the top". Ummm, this is Mars, there are NO accessible trails to the top lol
There is litteraly no path at all. Not to the Top and not to anywhere esle :D
Indeed, the surface of Olympus Mons is very rough, consisting of irregular cooled lava flows and some deep dust drifts. For a preview of the surface, try walking around on fresh volcanic lava flows on the large volcanoes in Hawaii, as that would give you some idea of how hard just trying to walk there might be "Climbing" the mountain would be difficult at best, although there are at least two or three routes up from the surrounding plains that would not require directly scaling the tall escarpment near the volcano's base.
Martian trails. DUH!
Moral of the story: Even Mars gets zits.
Robots while walking there: "ZEUS! Your son had returned. I bring the destruction of OLYMPUS!"
😂🤣
GAIAAAAAA!
why kratos always forgot that he has a wing
Olympus will prevail!
@@fixer1140 OLYMPUS MUST dIe!!!
Also makes me recall a certain quote from the legendary Patrick Stewart - “Perhaps someone alive today will be the first ever to climb it” - The Planets documentary from the 90s
John Volken I agree. Thing is, that documentary was made during a time when we didn’t really know much of what was to come that would set us back in terms of advancement. Still though, an epic and memorable quote regardless!
John Volken all we can really do is hope people like Elon succeed, the path is lauds before us. The bureaucrats has “better” things to do than follow it.
Literally I can barely comprehend this, it’s so fascinating and great, something that can only make you stare - in awe.
Its like we’ve been there with you. Beautiful music, graphics and story. Thank you so very much.
One dream of mine is to go to the Moon or Mars before I die. I know it will never happen, but one can dream, right?
Who knows,. You never know what's gonna happen tomorrow for certain
Law of attraction...
We're not as far away as you think. It may cost a bit but the technology is getting there
Me too, I'm happy too if I ever feel what the feeling of no gravity 😊
but I think guys 100 years in the future, maybe have a tour in space🤔
I hope that ‘an expedition to the peak of Olympus Mons’ would be something that would happen in my lifetime. Since I was a kid I daydreamed about visiting it. Thanks for the video!
"Olympus" when i see that i think about kratos
I think about empire state building.
@@joeyoussef7053 Percy Jackson 😂😂😂
Was Olympus Mons a large volcanic island when oceans still existed there?
Yes it was and it had,three volcanoes a few hundred miles south of it that make up the whole known as the Tharsus Bulge!
Terraformed Mars maps prove it is.
No! You weren't paying attention.
Completely the wrong times, the oceans disappeared billions of years ago, Olympus Mons is recent.
Yes
No, Olympus Mons is geollogically more recent that the ancient Mars seas
For a fictitious account of climbing Olympus Mons, read "Green Mars" in Kim Stanley Robinson's "The Martians" collection of short stories.
MarsFKA it’s hardly a short story, iirc
MarsFKA He also wrote a long story of three novels (see my other comment) 1) Red Mars, 2) Green Mars and 3) Blue Mars. Read!
It was in the collection of short stories “The Martians” set in the same future as the Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson. I met him once, he’s actually a mountaineer in his spare time and it’s actually quite good on the technical details of climbing as well as some nice future tech for camping in low atmospheric pressure. Great read and highly recommended...
That I wanted to mention, but I forgot the tile and the author. But a really nice story I read many years ago!
I was thinking that too. They climbed the cliffs too, as a point of pride.
Imagine being at mars at night and looking at earth.
Then seeing a asteroid go towards it
Mars is more likely to get hit by asteroid. You should think about saving your own ass.
Rishikesh Ingle bruh...
@Iron Oxide Jupiter does a good job at keeping us safe though.
Lol
Nice and menacing comment
Always been fascinated by enormity of Olymus Mons, as a kid in school learning about it. Whats also pretty cool is canyons that dwarf our grand canyons on mars as well.
Captivating video. Scientifically accurate. The best presentation I have ever come across on this fascinating structure. One comment is that the Martian atmosphere is actually blue. It is the red dust that gives it its red colour. The rovers at time of calm noted a blue atmosphere.
After traveling for almost a year in zero G through space to finally get there, standing up and walking wouldn't be as easy at all. Your body would have to readjust to gravity - actually a level of gravitational force that you never ever experienced before.
That's why building ships that spin like centrifuges and create an artificial gravity out of centrifugal force would be a good choice.
@@FrankyPi True. Though it's worth to mention that it's not the same as gravity. The centrifugal force affecting your head is smaller than the one on your feet. Long term effects are unknown I think 🤔
@@balazsadorjani1263 That's why larger radius is better
Didn’t someone spend a year in space? They exercise
@@balazsadorjani1263 centripital force*
If there had been life on Mars millions of years ago, could this volcano be responsible for it's present state ?.
Nope, a volcano wouldn’t strip the atmosphere it would thicken it. Also mars is much smaller than earth so it’s magnetic field was _always_ weaker, it simply wore out faster.
This mound is not a volcano ...don't be so gullible !
@@NOTTHASAME So... all those typical signs of lava flows, typical calderas and rocks with all the chemical signatures of basalt formed from lava are some kind of hoax to deny your pet theory? Electric universe eh? Or is it some work of some invisible pink unicorn god?
annoyed707 splendid.
Think so
Thank you! There is something in the way you narrate that is meaningful to me.
This is like bacteria geeking out over the biggest pimple on a face.
Not clever
Getting perspective n how big it is is amazing, when looking atpics u just think eh i hear wrds how tall, but dont comprehend basically walking across france
Walking across France is not such a big deal. Ever got out of your car in your life?
@@peterbreis5407 The mars astronauts would likely drive a rover to climb Olympus Mons, anyways. Two days of just walking is quite long
And obv not a slow one like Curiosity, Opportunity, etc. It will be larger, faster & pressurized like NASA prototype on Earth
@ Peter Breis the person who thinks walking 572 miles is a piece of piss. Please do not get confused with the American measurement "The Football Field" Walking across France is not such a big deal...….lmfao
Thank you for sharing this. Very enlightening and entertaining.
Mount Everest: I am the tallest mountain ever!
Mars: hold my moons
You mean 'mons'? ;)
I hope when I pass on my soul travels all over this infinite universe and I am able to see Olympus mons from a heavenly view
You are infinite but to another realm you shall go. Somewhere far more beautiful
Nope, when you die your consciousness ceases to exist.
Dildo Shwaggins and how do you know that?
@@Lucky-sh1dm He doesn't know that, that's just what he chooses to believe.
@@marijancorluka4500 Exactly
Yo I love your videos man. Watching you from the beginning I’ve learned and became so interested in space. Keep up the videos bro.
Yes so true he is the best guy in the word (:
World**
Olympus Mons is Mars' largest pimple
Thanks a lot for this video. As always beautiful and informative.
When we replace Hubble, I wonder if we could retrofit it, and send it to a "Geostationary orbit around Mars. We could then use it in concert with newer Earth Telescopes. Perhaps with this technique we could guage the distances of far away objects.
Maybe in the future we might use Earth/Mars observational systems to better calculate distances/locations of Blackholes and other phenomena, through their gravitational waves.
We?
@@jaygill5582 We, the human race...I'm really trying not to sound rude here, so i hope ypu got it...
Been subscribed to this guy for 2 years and i love his videos
Same here. Though I wish he uploads at least every week or 2
Been subscribed to Dreksler for 3 years. Since January 2017. ❤
Very very informative video. My brother and I were just talking about this last night for some reason and this came up on my homepage. Thank you
8:05 Loved the Sagan reference.
Congratulations!
This is a top quality documentary.
The background music is heart touching feel the flyover to mars
I absolutely love this video! Mater of fact I've shared ot to like 5 or 6 of my friends on social media already.
This was unexpectedly educational. Subscribed!
Just amazing, thanks so much for this great video 👌
It’s over anikan, I have the highest ground in the solar system!
Rheasilvia on the asteroid Vesta: You underestimate my power!
@@TGAM2005 don’t try it!
goddamn, this was totally awesome. thank you
Great Video! Very informative. Thank you for posting!
Thanks for such wonderful videos, background music volume was perfect and i like the sound and voice. Well done 👏
Fascinating. Nice video, thank you. I’d love to see something similar about Pluto, my favourite planetoid. The surface is like something from an old sci-fi movie.
Thank you so much for the great content! Keep it up, all the videos on the channel are awesome !
Love your videos!!! Keep up the good work
What an amazing amazing video! I learned so much! As a visual learner with ADHD, the way you laid everything out visually was golden! Thank you for the hard work I know this video took!
I’ve watched these videos for quite some time now, I’m never disappointed :) I also watch these with my friends who love space as well
I would never climb it; I couldn't get time off from my employer.
Absolutely love your voice it is so calming. Both you and Tibees have the best and most calming voices
Really enjoyed this short upload thank you
Excellent! It was almost like having made this trip
Love these videos of yours Dreksler
7:32 Absolutely stunning transition from day to night
Always glad to see a new upload from you.
I absolutely love this channel🤞🏾
Tallest Mountain 🏔 and Volcano 🌋? In the Solar System? You know people are going to try to climb that some day. Incredible!
Thank you for the information!
Thank you so much for detailed elaboration👍🙏
So, I watched SpaceX's digital brochure,
Ok, I'm interested
Great video Dreksler, keep it up, love your content
So well done, thanks so much!!
Fantastic video. Really gives one a detailed sense of the Martian surface. I wish I could go. Just born too soon. I hope my grandkids can go!
Amazing explanation and Beautiful music perfect combination 😃😃😃
This was very informative for a layman such as myself.Thank you sir.
Thanks to the cameraman for going to space to take those beautiful pictures
🤦🏻♂️
Amazing video and presentation, thank you!
Super cool!
A couple of weeks ago, I did climb on one of the mountains in El Marqués, Querétaro, México. Although Im sure its nowhere near the height of the tallest mountains. When I got to the top, I was able to see all the houses and building in the town of Santa María de los baños.
Saint Maria of the bathroom??
Very enjoyable, thanks,it took me away from here for awhile
Really cool video. Thanks
Sounds like a mission impossible tape
"Should you agree to accept the mission"
cringe
cringe
Not clever
cringe
*I can't wait to climb this Mountain!* 🙂
me too
This will happen in the year 2500 , we will be dead by then lol
Dimitrij Glasow How do you know
150 billion people are dead in the past 800 million years, another 6 billion dead in the next 60 years
@@MoneyMan28 What does that have to do with me wanting to climb this mountain? 🤔🤔🤨
Thank you for a great trip !
Great video. Thanks for sharing 💖
Looks pretty easy to climb up, and with no snow or ice it can be a popular site to walk up
Awesome videos i love them and watch them over and over and over greatings from El Salvador
Thanks for your explanation!
Incredible description , very well explained . i have a wish my son would climb it
My gosh this is amazing!
Amazing video 👍🏻
Incredible video!. That's such a trip!
Very cool! Thanks
0:29 Tallest mountain above the ocean.
He didn't say Everest was the tallest mountain on Earth. He was only using Mt Everest as a familiar comparison.
Mount Everest will remain tallest mountain in the world till the ocean evaporates. Truth.
It is unfair to calculate height of one mountain from sea level while calculating other from above sea level. Measuring Everest's height from sea level would make it taller than Mauna Kea.
Time to climb my bed, wish me a good luck.
Always watch these videos Full Screen. Amazing work.
Perfect for our homeschool unit. Thanks so much for sharing.
Fascinating video. Thank you. You didnt mention the other three smaller volcanoes spread out due south of Olypus Mons,the entire area is called the Tharsus Bulge. It would be a hell of an adventure. Some lucky human in the coming centuries will be the first to reach it i'm sure! 😊
"As you can see, it would very much be visible from space"
Ahh yes the mountain visible from space would be infact visible from space.
Excellent post, DA.
This was amazing to watch: LIKED + SUBSCRIBED + HIT THE NOTIFICATION BUTTON + SHARED