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Olympus Mons - viable Mars landing site? - Space Exploration Stack Exchange The Olympus Mons shown greatly exaggerates the slopes The slopes of the flanks of Olympus Mons are around 5° If you were there, you would hardly know that you were on the side of the largest mountain on Mars, especially since on a normal dust level day, you wouldn't be able to see the summit until you were most of the way up
Newest olympus-mons Questions - Space Exploration Stack Exchange Olympus Mons - viable Mars landing site? I'm becoming interested in how Mars missions are planning their landings One aspect I see brought up time and again is Mars' awkward atmosphere - 'just enough there that you have to care about it'
Is a railgun up Olympus Mons possible? - Space Exploration Stack Exchange But how about a rail up Olympus Mons? At $0 02 \ kg m^3$ Mars surface atmosphere is already rarefied And at 22 km, Olympus Mons is a very tall mountain At 3 5 km s, Mars orbital velocity is a little less than half that of earth Is the air at the top of Olympus Mons thin enough to allow rail gun launches to orbit?
How much is the difference of gravity attraction between the highest . . . Mars has a very high mountain, Olympus Mons (25 km), while Hellas Planitia is a 9 km deep crater How much would the weight of a person weighing 100kg on Earth, change between the highest peak of the Olympus Mons and the Hellas Planitia crater's deepest point?
How large are the advantages to building a Martian spaceport on Olympus . . . However, on Mars Olympus Mons provides an altitude advantage of 21 kilometers (something with no analog on Earth) and near Mars' equator at 19° North In this case, how much of an advantage would this be for a launch for a given vehicle? 1% in payload mass? 10%? For balance, answers are welcome to point out the challenges and disadvantages as
Where on Mars will Chinas rover land? Same applies to Valles Marineris Also Olympus Mons "pokes" out of the martian atmosphere so parachutes are less effective, making landing harder Also there's no point landing there It's better to land somewhere where's there's likely to be water or thriving micro-organisms
Falcon-9 Starship landing on an uneven surface ObliteratedJillo 1,185 6 17 1 different but related: How, in the SpaceX Mars stack, do they plan to address de novo landing sites? and Why doesn't Starship have four landing legs? and Olympus Mons - viable Mars landing site? and Avoiding rocks when landing on Mars – user12102 Sep 9, 2020 at 4:34 1