How Tall Can Mountains Be?
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Olympus Mons, the tallest mountain in our Solar System, towers 21,000 meters above thesurface of Mars -- nearly two and a half times the height of Mount Everest. On Earth, youwould need a spacesuit to survive at that altitude - but could there even be a mountainthat tall here on our home planet?Based on the strength of Earth's gravity and the density and strength of rock, in principleyou could make a single conical mountain that stretched between New York and Chicago andsoared over 45km! That's twice the size of Olympus Mons and definitely dwarfs Everest.However, there are a couple of reasons why we can't actually have that humongous of amountain on Earth:For one, Earth's crust is made up of continental plates that essentially float in the semi-so...
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Olympus Mons, the tallest mountain in our Solar System, towers 21,000 meters above thesurface of Mars -- nearly two and a half times the height of Mount Everest. On Earth, youwould need a spacesuit to survive at that altitude - but could there even be a mountainthat tall here on our home planet?Based on the strength of Earth's gravity and the density and strength of rock, in principleyou could make a single conical mountain that stretched between New York and Chicago andsoared over 45km! That's twice the size of Olympus Mons and definitely dwarfs Everest.However, there are a couple of reasons why we can't actually have that humongous of amountain on Earth:For one, Earth's crust is made up of continental plates that essentially float in the semi-so...
