Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27221100-20170521001514/@comment-26478829-20170620214949

Sorry for being late, been very busy lately. I can't find an exact estimatation on the volume of the Volcano but I found this:

https://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/atlas/olympus-mons.html

"The largest of the volcanoes in the Tharsis Montes region, as well as all known volcanoes in the solar system, is Olympus Mons. Olympus Mons is a shield volcano 624 km (374 mi) in diameter (approximately the same size as the state of Arizona), 25 km (16 mi) high, and is rimmed by a 6 km (4 mi) high scarp. A caldera 80 km (50 mi) wide is located at the summit of Olympus Mons. To compare, the largest volcano on Earth is Mauna Loa. Mauna Loa is a shield volcano 10 km (6.3 mi) high and 120 km (75 mi) across. The volume of Olympus Mons is about 100 times larger than that of Mauna Loa. In fact, the entire chain of Hawaiian islands (from Kauai to Hawaii) would fit inside Olympus Mons!"

Luckilly, Mauna Loa has a valculated volume. It is 40,000 km^3

40,000 * 100 = 4,000,000 km^3

4,000,000 * 1,000,000,000,000,000 = 4,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 cm^3

4,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 * 214.35 = 8.574e+23 J

204.9 Teratons of TNT.

Big rock.