Climbing Olympus Mons - Tallest Planetary Mountain in the Solar System

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  • @DrekslerAstral
    @DrekslerAstral  4 роки тому +736

    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.

    • @lillyrose6635
      @lillyrose6635 4 роки тому +6

      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???

    • @dabu3
      @dabu3 4 роки тому +6

      I'm gonna have to look up mount Chimborazo sometime, now you got me curious. 😁

    • @DABLACKESTJEW
      @DABLACKESTJEW 4 роки тому +5

      Wait you can edit out things IN the video after you uploaded it?????

    • @MM-qj1yb
      @MM-qj1yb 4 роки тому +4

      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?

    • @mattprior8442
      @mattprior8442 4 роки тому +3

      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 !

  • @reiroll5
    @reiroll5 4 роки тому +3076

    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”

    • @3000-z7p
      @3000-z7p 4 роки тому +382

      @@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. 😛😢

    • @Spooky_Psyche
      @Spooky_Psyche 4 роки тому +218

      @@sebode87 lol, what a pompous turd. Cringe level 1000. We love irony.

    • @maxloginov6127
      @maxloginov6127 4 роки тому +178

      Cait Sith It’s called evolution, and you’re two generations behind

    • @maxloginov6127
      @maxloginov6127 4 роки тому +84

      Cait Sith Orrrrr evolution

    • @murphydemara5357
      @murphydemara5357 4 роки тому +130

      Cait Sith you Guys lost the war we can speak English how we want pusst

  • @Zizou19989
    @Zizou19989 4 роки тому +815

    I can't fathom how incredible those 8km cliffs would look from the ground

    • @dickyarjuna1566
      @dickyarjuna1566 3 роки тому +32

      Its maybe not the cliffs like u would imagined. Its wouldn't looks like 90° Canyon

    • @titan9259
      @titan9259 3 роки тому +30

      @@dickyarjuna1566 cliffs don’t necessarily have to be 90 degrees steep

    • @dickyarjuna1566
      @dickyarjuna1566 3 роки тому +5

      @@titan9259 still, we wouldn't be able to see the bigger picture of it.

    • @bluewhalestudioblenderanim1132
      @bluewhalestudioblenderanim1132 3 роки тому +20

      @@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

    • @TheAzurTim
      @TheAzurTim 3 роки тому +8

      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?

  • @brianmessemer2973
    @brianmessemer2973 4 роки тому +2109

    Height is 2.5 times taller than Mt. Everest...Mars has 2.5 times lower gravity than Earth. Nice parallel!

    • @learnpianofastonline
      @learnpianofastonline 4 роки тому +44

      No doubt!

    • @dimitrioskouvatsos8030
      @dimitrioskouvatsos8030 4 роки тому +302

      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.

    • @tar170
      @tar170 4 роки тому +99

      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.

    • @erkinalp
      @erkinalp 4 роки тому +10

      Everest's base is some 17km below its peak, too.

    • @todaygems
      @todaygems 4 роки тому +9

      Maybe they both are lovers that we don't know

  • @orangedookie4596
    @orangedookie4596 4 роки тому +540

    youtube is very smart by giving us science lessons during quarantine, this was way better than lessons at school

    • @thefoolsfavorite
      @thefoolsfavorite 4 роки тому +24

      UA-cam is always better than school

    • @jalgames6582
      @jalgames6582 4 роки тому +19

      Mmm on UA-cam you can't learn properly, a UA-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.

    • @Bbknuckles
      @Bbknuckles 4 роки тому +1

      Dreksler Astral has been schooling us way before the quarantine..

    • @shamarerskine3987
      @shamarerskine3987 4 роки тому +3

      @@jalgames6582 not really cause i learned how nuclear bombs work and hydrogen ive learned physics and other stuff

    • @Mr.Armada
      @Mr.Armada 4 роки тому

      Then if you hate school then tell ur mom

  • @hellothere-xz7kf
    @hellothere-xz7kf 4 роки тому +668

    Just imagine being in a different planet...that’s crazy knowing that your on a different PLANET...that’s just insane

    • @Nutty151
      @Nutty151 4 роки тому +49

      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.

    • @Gabriel-jg5wh
      @Gabriel-jg5wh 4 роки тому +58

      @@Nutty151 i'm just so curious what will happend in the next 1000-5000 years so bad. Too bad life is short :( 😭😭

    • @randyangel9412
      @randyangel9412 4 роки тому +5

      Gabriel Malgapo yeah😩

    • @Ahmeezy
      @Ahmeezy 4 роки тому +5

      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

    • @MrPennstate2014
      @MrPennstate2014 4 роки тому +2

      You're*

  • @caseytilley9260
    @caseytilley9260 4 роки тому +554

    Imagine climbing to the top of Olympus Mons just to float out into space...

    • @ehsan960
      @ehsan960 3 роки тому +19

      lol

    • @siesta3002
      @siesta3002 3 роки тому +6

      Lmao

    • @LisaAnn777
      @LisaAnn777 2 роки тому +17

      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?

    • @charleswest6372
      @charleswest6372 Рік тому

      When do we leave?

    • @AlvinSeville1
      @AlvinSeville1 Рік тому

      Anybody who can do this is 2.5 times smarter as well.

  • @coloneljackmustard
    @coloneljackmustard 4 роки тому +152

    Love the otherworldly and futuristic sound of the background music.

    • @codzter6985
      @codzter6985 4 роки тому +3

      Jack Mustard, yeah i agree, its good

    • @fennviktorvich
      @fennviktorvich 4 роки тому +5

      Remembers me of "Moonbase alpha"

    • @Rick_Cleland
      @Rick_Cleland 9 днів тому

      My entire existence is characterized by profound suffering, depicted by deep despair and marked by a constant sense of anguish, filled with overwhelming distress and relentless misery. 😒😔

  • @Chamotmot
    @Chamotmot 4 роки тому +443

    10:54 Olympus Mons looks like a pimple of Mars from afar

  • @parthl
    @parthl 4 роки тому +741

    rookie mistake. everyone knows to just land at the top

    • @linoluvinn
      @linoluvinn 4 роки тому +9

      Read the title

    • @DogMeatDelicious
      @DogMeatDelicious 4 роки тому +71

      @@linoluvinn Rookie mistake. Everyone knows to read only but a half of a title before watching the video and commenting.

    • @linoluvinn
      @linoluvinn 4 роки тому +3

      @@DogMeatDelicious ok?

    • @DogMeatDelicious
      @DogMeatDelicious 4 роки тому +56

      @@linoluvinn Rookie mistake. You backed yourself up without realising some people aren't born with a sense of humor.

    • @linoluvinn
      @linoluvinn 4 роки тому +3

      @@DogMeatDelicious yup, keep talking

  • @phillyphilly1853
    @phillyphilly1853 4 роки тому +89

    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!!

    • @immortalsofar5314
      @immortalsofar5314 4 роки тому +14

      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.

    • @s0ph146
      @s0ph146 Місяць тому

      Yeah, I know right this is scary but cool at the same time.

  • @earthenjadis8199
    @earthenjadis8199 4 роки тому +660

    Hey guys - I'm stuck in quarantine but I just climbed the tallest mountain in the solar system.
    The internet does have its uses!

    • @matheusbarbosa700
      @matheusbarbosa700 4 роки тому +2

      Maybe with virtual reality

    • @zeitgeist2point087
      @zeitgeist2point087 4 роки тому +4

      It’s quite the *Sisyphean* task.

    • @earthenjadis8199
      @earthenjadis8199 4 роки тому +6

      @@zeitgeist2point087 Thanks. Don't be a *Stranger* now.

    • @KhanMann66
      @KhanMann66 4 роки тому

      You travel the world without ever lifting a foot. Minecraft earth 1:1 scale.

    • @zackdewit1280
      @zackdewit1280 4 роки тому

      has it been eight months since quarantine. jesus…

  • @aseelsenthusiast9911
    @aseelsenthusiast9911 4 роки тому +228

    Dreksler astral you are the only one enthusiastic astronomer which i love the most.

  • @gabenewell3955
    @gabenewell3955 4 роки тому +305

    “You can’t just shoot a hole in the surface of Mars...”

  • @navad108
    @navad108 4 роки тому +13

    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!

  • @VampireMacky
    @VampireMacky 4 роки тому +78

    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

    • @VampireMacky
      @VampireMacky 4 роки тому +1

      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!

    • @9bang88
      @9bang88 4 роки тому +1

      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.

  • @malcolmabram2957
    @malcolmabram2957 4 роки тому +96

    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.

  • @YohaneTheNesoberi
    @YohaneTheNesoberi 4 роки тому +47

    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.

  • @navyactor
    @navyactor 4 роки тому +35

    Literally I can barely comprehend this, it’s so fascinating and great, something that can only make you stare - in awe.

  • @apelincoln1616
    @apelincoln1616 4 роки тому +64

    "There are not many accessible trails to the top". Ummm, this is Mars, there are NO accessible trails to the top lol

    • @TarezOfficial
      @TarezOfficial 4 роки тому +4

      There is litteraly no path at all. Not to the Top and not to anywhere esle :D

    • @davidknisely3003
      @davidknisely3003 3 роки тому +3

      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.

    • @DJ-iv2xo
      @DJ-iv2xo 3 роки тому

      Martian trails. DUH!

  • @SurajkumarMundra
    @SurajkumarMundra 4 роки тому +972

    I am not overweight
    .
    .
    .
    I am on wrong planet

    • @au9parsec
      @au9parsec 4 роки тому +6

      Suraj Kumar Mundra, little big planet.

    • @yellowflash7696
      @yellowflash7696 4 роки тому +13

      If there’s fat over flowing on your body like icecream sundae... then you are over mass.

    • @Nightwish9991
      @Nightwish9991 4 роки тому +2

      Lol. Good point. I'm not overweight either. At least according to Mars. Let's move.

    • @johnmarston295
      @johnmarston295 4 роки тому +2

      "I'm not fat, I'm just big boned"
      - Big Smoke

    • @BMarie774
      @BMarie774 4 роки тому +1

      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.

  • @ftolmsteen
    @ftolmsteen 4 роки тому +387

    Was Olympus Mons a large volcanic island when oceans still existed there?

    • @michaelkelligan7931
      @michaelkelligan7931 4 роки тому +95

      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!

    • @moreno4821
      @moreno4821 4 роки тому +12

      Terraformed Mars maps prove it is.

    • @peterbreis5407
      @peterbreis5407 4 роки тому +64

      No! You weren't paying attention.
      Completely the wrong times, the oceans disappeared billions of years ago, Olympus Mons is recent.

    • @oskarLaiho
      @oskarLaiho 4 роки тому

      Yes

    • @quisqueyanguy120
      @quisqueyanguy120 4 роки тому +32

      No, Olympus Mons is geollogically more recent that the ancient Mars seas

  • @balazsadorjani1263
    @balazsadorjani1263 4 роки тому +48

    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.

    • @FrankyPi
      @FrankyPi 4 роки тому +14

      That's why building ships that spin like centrifuges and create an artificial gravity out of centrifugal force would be a good choice.

    • @balazsadorjani1263
      @balazsadorjani1263 4 роки тому +1

      @@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 🤔

    • @FrankyPi
      @FrankyPi 4 роки тому +6

      @@balazsadorjani1263 That's why larger radius is better

    • @kiythetheocrat5723
      @kiythetheocrat5723 4 роки тому

      Didn’t someone spend a year in space? They exercise

    • @AverageAlien
      @AverageAlien 2 роки тому

      @@balazsadorjani1263 centripital force*

  • @lavl3001
    @lavl3001 4 роки тому +5

    Its like we’ve been there with you. Beautiful music, graphics and story. Thank you so very much.

  • @dapdizzy
    @dapdizzy 4 роки тому +2

    Thank you! There is something in the way you narrate that is meaningful to me.

  • @ghostofrome7528
    @ghostofrome7528 4 роки тому +43

    Congratulations!
    This is a top quality documentary.

    • @thealexworld616
      @thealexworld616 4 роки тому

      The background music is heart touching feel the flyover to mars

  • @MarsFKA
    @MarsFKA 4 роки тому +143

    For a fictitious account of climbing Olympus Mons, read "Green Mars" in Kim Stanley Robinson's "The Martians" collection of short stories.

    • @thomasalexandre7056
      @thomasalexandre7056 4 роки тому +2

      MarsFKA it’s hardly a short story, iirc

    • @mayday6916
      @mayday6916 4 роки тому +1

      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!

    • @planetdisco4821
      @planetdisco4821 4 роки тому +7

      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...

    • @hassanalihusseini1717
      @hassanalihusseini1717 4 роки тому +3

      That I wanted to mention, but I forgot the tile and the author. But a really nice story I read many years ago!

    • @synthetic240
      @synthetic240 4 роки тому

      I was thinking that too. They climbed the cliffs too, as a point of pride.

  • @mysticranger6894
    @mysticranger6894 4 роки тому +46

    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

    • @peterbreis5407
      @peterbreis5407 4 роки тому

      Walking across France is not such a big deal. Ever got out of your car in your life?

    • @alvianchoiriapriliansyah9882
      @alvianchoiriapriliansyah9882 4 роки тому

      @@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

    • @jasonoreilly2795
      @jasonoreilly2795 4 роки тому +3

      @ 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

  • @TheNerdRapper
    @TheNerdRapper Рік тому

    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!

  • @jollygrapefruit786
    @jollygrapefruit786 4 роки тому +3

    This was unexpectedly educational. Subscribed!

  • @freezyboy1023
    @freezyboy1023 4 роки тому +14

    Been subscribed to this guy for 2 years and i love his videos

    • @kmuturi238
      @kmuturi238 4 роки тому

      Same here. Though I wish he uploads at least every week or 2

    • @FaheemProductions
      @FaheemProductions 4 роки тому

      Been subscribed to Dreksler for 3 years. Since January 2017. ❤

  • @bruv8117
    @bruv8117 4 роки тому +342

    Robots while walking there: "ZEUS! Your son had returned. I bring the destruction of OLYMPUS!"

  • @Studio-62
    @Studio-62 4 роки тому +11

    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.

  • @mukulraj5023
    @mukulraj5023 4 місяці тому +1

    I was planning to visit next year. Thank you for the itinerary

  • @paleblue498
    @paleblue498 4 роки тому +2

    Thank you for sharing this. Very enlightening and entertaining.

  • @amberb9701
    @amberb9701 4 роки тому +440

    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?

    • @rozh996
      @rozh996 4 роки тому +49

      Who knows,. You never know what's gonna happen tomorrow for certain

    • @abhijithp2116
      @abhijithp2116 4 роки тому +16

      Law of attraction...

    • @InfamousMedia
      @InfamousMedia 4 роки тому +30

      We're not as far away as you think. It may cost a bit but the technology is getting there

    • @kiko9382
      @kiko9382 4 роки тому +3

      Me too, I'm happy too if I ever feel what the feeling of no gravity 😊

    • @kiko9382
      @kiko9382 4 роки тому +2

      but I think guys 100 years in the future, maybe have a tour in space🤔

  • @loganharrisoncrabtree4644
    @loganharrisoncrabtree4644 4 роки тому +7

    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

  • @reggielavoie5260
    @reggielavoie5260 4 роки тому +16

    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.

  • @bob494949
    @bob494949 3 роки тому +3

    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!

  • @Vyaris
    @Vyaris 4 роки тому +31

    Moral of the story: Even Mars gets zits.

  • @andrewcarysr8378
    @andrewcarysr8378 4 роки тому +5

    I absolutely love this video! Mater of fact I've shared ot to like 5 or 6 of my friends on social media already.

  • @pobembe1958
    @pobembe1958 4 роки тому +50

    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.

    • @jaygill5582
      @jaygill5582 4 роки тому

      We?

    • @the_nautillus9176
      @the_nautillus9176 4 роки тому +4

      @@jaygill5582 We, the human race...I'm really trying not to sound rude here, so i hope ypu got it...

  • @Nicht-die-Mama
    @Nicht-die-Mama 4 роки тому +15

    Excellent! It was almost like having made this trip

  • @Betis91
    @Betis91 4 роки тому +5

    Olympus Mons is Mars' largest pimple

  • @omairsh8
    @omairsh8 3 роки тому +3

    7:32 Absolutely stunning transition from day to night

  • @asielqodesh
    @asielqodesh 4 роки тому +13

    I absolutely love this channel🤞🏾

  • @metalpsyche82
    @metalpsyche82 4 роки тому +70

    goddamn, this was totally awesome. thank you

  • @akshaykishoredesai2017
    @akshaykishoredesai2017 4 роки тому +8

    Amazing explanation and Beautiful music perfect combination 😃😃😃

  • @Xphilian123
    @Xphilian123 4 роки тому

    Absolutely love your voice it is so calming. Both you and Tibees have the best and most calming voices

  • @saeedalamri1975
    @saeedalamri1975 2 роки тому +1

    Just amazing, thanks so much for this great video 👌

  • @Beckwourth
    @Beckwourth 4 роки тому +8

    Love these videos of yours Dreksler

  • @doberbox1
    @doberbox1 4 роки тому +5

    Awesome videos i love them and watch them over and over and over greatings from El Salvador

  • @nickynick3527
    @nickynick3527 4 роки тому +84

    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

    • @lancelotkillz
      @lancelotkillz 4 роки тому +7

      You are infinite but to another realm you shall go. Somewhere far more beautiful

    • @Lucky-sh1dm
      @Lucky-sh1dm 4 роки тому +13

      Dildo Shwaggins and how do you know that?

    • @marijancorluka4500
      @marijancorluka4500 4 роки тому +13

      @@Lucky-sh1dm He doesn't know that, that's just what he chooses to believe.

    • @pliniohernandez1
      @pliniohernandez1 4 роки тому +1

      @@marijancorluka4500 Exactly

    • @Bruce.-Wayne
      @Bruce.-Wayne 4 роки тому +1

      @Dildo Shwaggins .....the masses dont believe in death....they think you still exist in another form....my question is since when the last time they made contact with their dead loved ones?

  • @bhavinnagda865
    @bhavinnagda865 4 роки тому +2

    Incredible description , very well explained . i have a wish my son would climb it

  • @alanwatts8239
    @alanwatts8239 4 роки тому +10

    8:05 Loved the Sagan reference.

  • @matthewthomas2546
    @matthewthomas2546 4 роки тому +4

    Great video Dreksler, keep it up, love your content

  • @sburton015
    @sburton015 4 роки тому +22

    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.

    • @jonhayes2937
      @jonhayes2937 4 роки тому +3

      Saint Maria of the bathroom??

  • @michaelkelligan7931
    @michaelkelligan7931 4 роки тому +17

    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! 😊

  • @naimulsattar7686
    @naimulsattar7686 4 роки тому

    Thanks for such wonderful videos, background music volume was perfect and i like the sound and voice. Well done 👏

  • @zeineddine228
    @zeineddine228 4 роки тому +1

    Love your videos!!! Keep up the good work

  • @prfm_setya95
    @prfm_setya95 4 роки тому +15

    So, I watched SpaceX's digital brochure,
    Ok, I'm interested

  • @dynjarren7523
    @dynjarren7523 4 роки тому +5

    Tallest Mountain 🏔 and Volcano 🌋? In the Solar System? You know people are going to try to climb that some day. Incredible!

  • @nybsfp7486
    @nybsfp7486 4 роки тому +32

    This is like bacteria geeking out over the biggest pimple on a face.

  • @knowledgeispower2475
    @knowledgeispower2475 4 роки тому +1

    This was amazing to watch: LIKED + SUBSCRIBED + HIT THE NOTIFICATION BUTTON + SHARED

  • @yallgotcheez6285
    @yallgotcheez6285 4 роки тому +35

    "Olympus" when i see that i think about kratos

  • @RythmGkwd
    @RythmGkwd 4 роки тому +32

    Sounds like a mission impossible tape
    "Should you agree to accept the mission"

  • @simongibson6228
    @simongibson6228 4 роки тому +31

    If there had been life on Mars millions of years ago, could this volcano be responsible for it's present state ?.

    • @9bang88
      @9bang88 4 роки тому +15

      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.

    • @NOTTHASAME
      @NOTTHASAME 4 роки тому

      This mound is not a volcano ...don't be so gullible !

    • @annoyed707
      @annoyed707 4 роки тому +19

      @@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?

    • @SuperGGLOL
      @SuperGGLOL 4 роки тому

      annoyed707 splendid.

    • @linoluvinn
      @linoluvinn 4 роки тому

      Think so

  • @showirstraw8057
    @showirstraw8057 4 роки тому +27

    It’s over anikan, I have the highest ground in the solar system!

    • @TGAM2005
      @TGAM2005 4 роки тому +1

      Rheasilvia on the asteroid Vesta: You underestimate my power!

    • @Clancy_Hill
      @Clancy_Hill 4 роки тому

      @@TGAM2005 don’t try it!

  • @RafaleC77th
    @RafaleC77th 4 роки тому

    Always watch these videos Full Screen. Amazing work.

  • @maksudaliyev733
    @maksudaliyev733 3 роки тому

    Thank you so much for detailed elaboration👍🙏

  • @LiberateAlberta1907
    @LiberateAlberta1907 4 роки тому +37

    *I can't wait to climb this Mountain!* 🙂

    • @funkibacomedy8703
      @funkibacomedy8703 4 роки тому +1

      me too

    • @x32i77
      @x32i77 4 роки тому +2

      This will happen in the year 2500 , we will be dead by then lol

    • @niggaify145
      @niggaify145 4 роки тому

      Dimitrij Glasow How do you know

    • @MoneyMan28
      @MoneyMan28 4 роки тому +1

      150 billion people are dead in the past 800 million years, another 6 billion dead in the next 60 years

    • @LiberateAlberta1907
      @LiberateAlberta1907 4 роки тому

      @@MoneyMan28 What does that have to do with me wanting to climb this mountain? 🤔🤔🤨

  • @theflaminggaming2011
    @theflaminggaming2011 4 роки тому +25

    Most coolest youtube channel on the internet

    • @atomics.h.1824
      @atomics.h.1824 4 роки тому +1

      Nope. It's PewDiePie

    • @giovanniherrera6037
      @giovanniherrera6037 4 роки тому

      Peedieshit screaming into his mic since 2011 and yet people don’t get tired of it

  • @Bigwsly
    @Bigwsly 4 роки тому +10

    Can you do a what if every solar system planet was habitable BTW great video

  • @Not_Vladimir_Putin
    @Not_Vladimir_Putin 4 роки тому

    Great Video! Very informative. Thank you for posting!

  • @ceej8059
    @ceej8059 4 роки тому +38

    Mount Everest: I am the tallest mountain ever!
    Mars: hold my moons

    • @MrRozebud
      @MrRozebud 4 роки тому +3

      You mean 'mons'? ;)

  • @rhwinner
    @rhwinner 4 роки тому +22

    I would never climb it; I couldn't get time off from my employer.

  • @fizkpmy
    @fizkpmy 4 роки тому +3

    Thanks to the cameraman for going to space to take those beautiful pictures

    • @omairsh8
      @omairsh8 3 роки тому

      🤦🏻‍♂️

  • @lilusichka
    @lilusichka 4 роки тому +44

    Imagine being at mars at night and looking at earth.
    Then seeing a asteroid go towards it

  • @ashleypenn7845
    @ashleypenn7845 Рік тому

    Perfect for our homeschool unit. Thanks so much for sharing.

  • @Carbon6661
    @Carbon6661 3 місяці тому

    Awesome visualisation materials. Awesome!!!

  • @cericlint9524
    @cericlint9524 4 роки тому +6

    "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.

  • @erichvonmolder9310
    @erichvonmolder9310 4 роки тому +4

    When this huge volcano was active back in the day, Mars must have been a hopping place. Probably had a lot of water, along with fire and maybe life.

  • @DuckQuac
    @DuckQuac 4 роки тому +4

    Super cool!

  • @logwind
    @logwind 4 роки тому

    Always glad to see a new upload from you.

  • @whiterose6186
    @whiterose6186 4 роки тому

    I have no idea how u r making the videos but they are excellent!

  • @ironmeteorite1343
    @ironmeteorite1343 4 роки тому +5

    You should make a video about hiking through Valles Marineris.

  • @abandonedchannel72929
    @abandonedchannel72929 4 роки тому +72

    A little fun activity in space videos' comments, I call it 'Find the Flat-earther' and it's exactly what it sounds like.

    • @jackdshellback3819
      @jackdshellback3819 4 роки тому +7

      I'm playing that one too, do we get points, and do we get extra points for a Flat Marzer?

    • @flyingcapsicum
      @flyingcapsicum 4 роки тому +6

      Oooh that's like 'Find the Young Earth Creationist' on nature/paleo video comments.

    • @MasterChief-uh5pr
      @MasterChief-uh5pr 4 роки тому

      Wrong pal, the flat weather found you.

    • @SkoomaCat
      @SkoomaCat 4 роки тому +2

      @@jackdshellback3819 Nonono 😂 the only flat planet is earth. No points for flatmars.

    • @SkoomaCat
      @SkoomaCat 4 роки тому +1

      Flat marsers...?

  • @MeezMiah
    @MeezMiah 4 роки тому +7

    Person 500 years later watching this video: Thanks for the route, climb? Lol we got rocket boots. R.I.P Dreksler

  • @AbigailJrney-1
    @AbigailJrney-1 Рік тому

    Incredible video!. That's such a trip!

  • @xaviergonzalez5145
    @xaviergonzalez5145 4 роки тому

    Who disliked this??? Is one of best video ever about Mars and it's volcanos! Thank you so much!

  • @samichloricacid
    @samichloricacid 4 роки тому +4

    Off topic: is it possible for the Hubble telescope to take a picture farther away than the extreme Hubble deep field? So we could actually see what happened at the birth of the universe?

  • @jamesfrench7299
    @jamesfrench7299 4 роки тому +13

    Man, that was killer. I'm actually more interested in the edges of this structure than the summit.
    Imagine looking up at this near plateau from the plain below?
    They discovered it during the Mariner missions when Mars had a worldwide dust storm (I take it to be possible due to the lower gravity and the near vacuum atmosphere) and OM was among Mars volcanic structures poking thru like giant zits 😆.

  • @generalmolotovv
    @generalmolotovv 4 роки тому +22

    Mount Everest: hah I’m a big boy
    The mountain on Mars: *hold my beer*

  • @jeffreyrobinson3555
    @jeffreyrobinson3555 Рік тому

    I was put in mind of the Great Plains. They slowly rise toward the Rockies, but give you the impression of flat or rolling landscape, you don’t feel your going ‘up hill’

  • @planck10-43
    @planck10-43 4 роки тому +1

    Thank god I found this video! I was going to try and climb it the hard way

  • @michaelkelligan7931
    @michaelkelligan7931 4 роки тому +14

    Id love to see you do a video on the largest active volcano in the solar system on Venus!

  • @AscendingBliss
    @AscendingBliss 4 роки тому +24

    Mt. Everest is not the "tallest" mountain on Earth.
    It is the "highest" mountain on Earth, but not the tallest.
    The actual tallest mountain on Earth is Mauna Kea.
    There is a significant difference between "tallest" and "highest."
    I'm not trying to be a douche, I just feel like it's important to know the difference.
    Very awesome video👌🏻👌🏻

    • @Marauder1981
      @Marauder1981 4 роки тому +4

      What´s the semantic difference between those words then?

    • @jaqenhghar2970
      @jaqenhghar2970 4 роки тому +6

      Agreed. From base to peak, Mauna Kea towers Everest by a mile and would make a better scale model for Earth to compare with Mars' Olympus Mons, especially the fact that Mauna Kea is also a volcano -- Everest isn't.

    • @tommiller7902
      @tommiller7902 4 роки тому +7

      Rücklicht Most of Mauna Kea is underwater, so from its base point underwater to its peak above water it destroys Everest. But Everest is higher above sea level.

    • @lunatickoala
      @lunatickoala 4 роки тому +10

      @@Marauder1981 Highest is defined as the distance of the peak above sea level. Tallest is defined as the distance from the base to the peak. As an example, the Burj Khalifa is the tallest building in the world. But because it is close to sea level, even a one floor building in Denver would be higher.
      So, the peak of Everest is the point on Earth furthest sea level but Mauna Kea is taller from base to peak. Also, Everest sits on the Tibetan Plateau which is 4500m high on average, so if one considers the Tibetan Plateau to be the base, from base to peak Everest is only about 4400m tall.

    • @soulveiw
      @soulveiw 4 роки тому

      @@Marauder1981 Are you stupid?

  • @benreinig8986
    @benreinig8986 4 роки тому +4

    I thought about doing this a few weeks ago so thank you for the video. What would it looks like to be on ground level and look up at the cliffs?

  • @glenrosarian2352
    @glenrosarian2352 5 місяців тому

    I believe the gravity on Mars is about 62.1% less than that on Earth, not 250% less. Because the acceleration due to gravity on Mars is about 3.72 m/s^2, and on Earth, 9.81 m/s^2.
    Thank you for putting the size of Olympus Mons in such a clear perspective. I knew it was big, but a cliff higher than Mt. Everest around the base? That's amazing.

  • @B-rads
    @B-rads Рік тому

    Very enjoyable, thanks,it took me away from here for awhile