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The highest known mountain is on Mars.It is called as the Mount Olympus or Olympus Mons (Latin). This giant volcano is the highest in the solar system and in the Known Universe.

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Olympus Mons:

At 22 km (14 miles) high and 624 km (388 miles) across, it is almost three times the height of mount Everest. Olympus Mons is so wide that its base would cover Arizona, or the whole of the area of British Isles. The crater on the top is around 72 km (45 miles) wide and over 3 km (nearly 2 miles) deep, easily big enough to swallow London.

 

Criticisms for Mount Olympus being  the highest mountain:

But Olympus Mons doesn't conform to most people's idea of a mountain as It is flat-topped -like a vast plateau in a sea drained of water and its sides aren't even steep. Their slight incline of between one and three degrees means you wouldn't even break a sweat if you climbed it.

We Traditionally measure mountains by their height. If we measured them by their size, it would be meaningless to isolate one mountain in a range from the rest. That being so, Mount Everest would dwarf Olympus Mons. It is part of gigantic Himalaya-Karakoram-Hindu-Kush-Pamir range which is nearly 2400 km (1500 miles) long.