Video: Compare the size of the big mountains in the Solar System

Rheasilvia Mons on the asteroid Vesta is the highest mountain in the Solar System, 2.5 times higher than Mount Everest on Earth.

Rheasilvia Mons on the asteroid Vesta is the highest mountain in the Solar System, 2.5 times higher than Mount Everest on Earth.

Picture 1 of Video: Compare the size of the big mountains in the Solar System

The mountains in the Solar System.

  • Mon Rumker Mount: 1.1km (Moon).
  • Mount Doom Mons: 1.45km (Titan - Saturn's Moon).
  • Caloris Montes: 3km (Mercury).
  • Mons Huygens Mountain: 5.5 km (Moon).
  • Skadi Mons Mountain: 6.4 km (Venus).
  • Mount Everest: 8.8km (Earth).
  • Mauna Kea Mountain: 10.2 km (Earth).
  • Arsia Mons Mountain: 11.7 km (Mars).
  • Mount Elysium Mons: 12.6km (Mars).
  • Mount Ascraeus Mons: 15km (Mars).
  • Mount Boosaules Montes: 17km (Io - Moon of Jupiter).
  • Equatorial Range: 20km (Lapetus - Saturn's Moon).
  • Rheasilvia Mons: 22km (Vesta - asteroid in the solar system).
Update 15 December 2018
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