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The largest volcano in the solar system is on Mars.
Olympus Mons on Mars is about 2.5 times the height of Mount Everest and roughly the size of Arizona. It could grow so large because Mars has lower gravity than Earth and no tectonic plate movement to break up volcanic regions. It's so tall that its peak extends above most of Mars' atmosphere.
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The Sun contains 99.86% of all the mass in our solar system.
Despite the planets, asteroids, comets, and other objects in our solar system, almost all the mass is contained...
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There’s a planet covered in lava oceans with winds seven times the speed of sound.
K2-141b is a planet so hot that it has oceans of molten rock and supersonic winds made of...
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There’s a planet covered in burning ice.
Gliese 436 b, a Neptune-sized exoplanet, is covered in a form of water ice that remains solid despite...