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What is the tallest mountain in the solar system? · Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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Speaker 1: Hey, jor Hey, you like the mountains, don't you. I
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Speaker 1: used to drink mountain dew. Yeah. I mean do you
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Speaker 1: like climbing mountains? Oh? Climb? I like skiing and hiking, yeah,
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Speaker 1: and I like looking at great views. All right, So
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Speaker 1: then what's the tallest mountain you ever summitted? I've been
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Speaker 1: to the top of El Capitan, and is that That
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Speaker 1: was like three thousand, three thousand feet I think, And
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Speaker 1: I bet that felt like a bit crazy, like a
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Speaker 1: little extreme. It was pretty pretty amazing. I mean I
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Speaker 1: was exhausted, but the views were amazing. You know, everything
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Speaker 1: looks so small. Well, what if I told you that
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Speaker 1: they were taller mountains out there, I mean like Mount Everett's.
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Speaker 1: Oh no, that's like a baby mountain. I'm talking much
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Speaker 1: much taller mountains. Well, they taste as good as mountain dew.
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Speaker 1: Hi am Jorge. I'm a cartoonist and the creator of
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Speaker 1: PhD comments. Hi. I'm Dania Whitson. I'm a particle physicist
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Speaker 1: and I'm learning how to live stream and welcome to
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Speaker 1: our podcast. Daniel and Jorge explain the university production of
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Speaker 1: I Heart Radio, in which we take a tour of
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Speaker 1: everything out there in the universe. Everything crazy, everything fast,
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Speaker 1: everything slow, everything hot, everything dense. Everything that you want
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Speaker 1: to know about the universe, explained in a way that
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Speaker 1: hopefully makes sense and entertains you. That's right. We take
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Speaker 1: a look at the everyday life, the physics of the
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Speaker 1: every day, and we also look at the extremes of
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Speaker 1: the universe all over, the biggest, the brightest, the loudest,
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Speaker 1: the craziest things out there in the universe, and bring
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Speaker 1: it to you here on this podcast because one of
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Speaker 1: my favorite things about the universe is that it is
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Speaker 1: so extreme. Here life on Earth is actually pretty calm
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Speaker 1: and slow and comfortable. But out there in the universe,
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Speaker 1: things are exploding, things are hot, things are dense. There
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Speaker 1: is crazy stuff happening out there, and that's how we
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Speaker 1: learned about the universe. We go to those places where
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Speaker 1: crazy things happen, and that shows us what is possible
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Speaker 1: in the universe. Though thankfully we don't live in one
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Speaker 1: of those crazy thankfully, right We Earth is pretty calm,
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Speaker 1: I think, well, not these days, definitely not these days,
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Speaker 1: but in general, in a cosmic sense, we are in
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Speaker 1: a pretty quiet part of the Solar System, and you'd
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Speaker 1: rather live in a calm place you don't want to
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Speaker 1: have a vacation home on a neutron star. I feel
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Speaker 1: like life is pretty exciting enough already as it is.
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Speaker 1: I don't think I need more mountains extreme. I bet
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Speaker 1: if they offered the tours of neutron Stars ski down
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Speaker 1: a slope on the mountains of Io, people would definitely
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Speaker 1: do it. Yeah, the ski left would take a lot
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Speaker 1: a long time, though. Well, we have a series of
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Speaker 1: podcasts we've been really enjoying all about the extremes of
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Speaker 1: the universe. We did the hottest place, the coldest place,
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Speaker 1: the biggest thing. What else did we do? We did
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Speaker 1: the emptiest thing, the itightest things, the biggest explosions in
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Speaker 1: the universe. There's a lot of st out there in
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Speaker 1: the universe, you know, And it's interesting to think that
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Speaker 1: there is sort of a maximum of these things. You know,
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Speaker 1: there is a maximum brightness, there is a maximum emptiness,
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Speaker 1: there is a maximum size of things. Yeah, and each
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Speaker 1: of these was fun to explore, and each one taught
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Speaker 1: us a little bit of physics along the way while
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Speaker 1: hopefully educating you about all the crazy stuff that's happening
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Speaker 1: in the universe. Yeah, and like you said, I think
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Speaker 1: It's interesting because it really kind of pushes your brain
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Speaker 1: a little bit to think beyond sort of what is
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Speaker 1: around us, or to try to wrap your head around
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Speaker 1: things that are that big or that bright or that small.
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Speaker 1: I think we've done smallest too, right, Yeah, well we
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Speaker 1: don't know what the smallest thing is, right, the smallest thing.
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Speaker 1: So far, we've done the funniest fart joke, the biggest
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Speaker 1: space banana. Oh wait, that that's in the queue for later,
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Speaker 1: got it. That's right. Tease the audience with that one.
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Speaker 1: But I think each of these teaches us something because
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Speaker 1: if you learn what's the datast possible thing or the
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Speaker 1: smallest thing and the hottest thing, it shows you what
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Speaker 1: the universe can do. And um, I think that that's
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Speaker 1: what's exciting, is prying the universe open and figuring out
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Speaker 1: what's possible, what's out there, and also just you know,
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Speaker 1: pulling ourselves out of our little cosmic neighborhood and realizing
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Speaker 1: that most of the universe is pretty different from the
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Speaker 1: kind of stuff that we experience. It's right. So today
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Speaker 1: on the podcast, we'll be talking about one such extreme
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Speaker 1: in the universe as part of our Extreme Universe series.
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Speaker 1: And so today we're talking about something that I think
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Speaker 1: everyone is maybe probably familiar with. I think we can
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Speaker 1: all see one maybe when we look outside our windows
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Speaker 1: every day, I hope. So it's something that I certainly enjoy.
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Speaker 1: I've always lived near one of these things, or in
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Speaker 1: one of these things, or I guess on one of
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Speaker 1: these things. I started to imagine not having went around.
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Speaker 1: You haven't lived under one, you haven't lived under one.
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Speaker 1: That's where I'm gonna retire. Yeah, that's my retirement play.
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Speaker 1: If things get any worse, that's where you're headed. But
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Speaker 1: today on the podcast, we'll be asking the question what
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Speaker 1: is the biggest mountain in the Solar system? The biggest
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Speaker 1: or the tallest? Daniel, I was going to ask you
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Speaker 1: are we doing biggest or tallest? Like do you want
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Speaker 1: to know where is the highest point sort of based
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Speaker 1: to peak or the highest point above sea level or
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Speaker 1: like the most stuff underneath the peak, Like a really
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Speaker 1: not very tall mountain but really wide would that count?
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Speaker 1: Or like if he had a really thin but tall mountain,
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Speaker 1: would that be the biggest. Well, from a skiing point
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Speaker 1: of view, you definitely would prefer tall and thin too
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Speaker 1: short and fat? Right? Oh? Man? I mean I don't
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Speaker 1: want to be all mountain body image stuff over here.
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Speaker 1: But you know, when it comes to skiing, there is
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Speaker 1: a difference. Yeah, well I think you know, I think,
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Speaker 1: aren't they sort of the same? I mean, if you
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Speaker 1: think about mountains, they all have sort of the same shape, right,
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Speaker 1: So this triangular shape you don't see like round mountains,
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Speaker 1: or like square mountains, or like tall and skinning mountains.
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Speaker 1: They're all sort of triangular shape. So aren't they the
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Speaker 1: same thing? Like asking the tallest means asking also the
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Speaker 1: biggest in terms of mass. I think, yes, if all
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Speaker 1: mountains were the same shape, then you're right, the tallest
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Speaker 1: would be the biggest. But not an expert in geology,
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Speaker 1: but having done a tiny bit of research for this podcast,
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Speaker 1: I learned that they're not actually all the same. Ship
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Speaker 1: There are around mountains, There are square mountains. There are
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Speaker 1: tall and thin, and they're shorter and fatter mountains like
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Speaker 1: we'll talk about it, but like volcanic mountains can be
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Speaker 1: pretty flat. And also depending on the amount of gravity,
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Speaker 1: the shape of volcanic mountain bearing. Yeah, I think there's
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Speaker 1: a formula for like the slope of a mountain depends
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Speaker 1: on what the rocks are made out of and then
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Speaker 1: also the gravity. Because you have a lot of gravity,
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Speaker 1: it'll will flatten the mountains, and you have less gravity,
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Speaker 1: they'll be bigger. Yeah. Yeah, So if you're a booster
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Speaker 1: for one particular mountain you think should be champion, you
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Speaker 1: might have, you know, a bone to pick at the
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Speaker 1: end after we declare our champions. Okay, but to be
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Speaker 1: on the podcast, I guess you're you're using tallest like
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Speaker 1: distance between the base of it to the peak of it.
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Speaker 1: I think based to peak is the best measurement. It
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Speaker 1: depends what you want in a mountain. If what you
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Speaker 1: want is an amazing view, then you really want to
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Speaker 1: be sort of highest point above sea level. But imagine
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Speaker 1: like a really big mountain that's like the size of
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Speaker 1: the whole planet. You're not going to get a great
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Speaker 1: view if you just sort of walk to the top
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Speaker 1: of that thing. So really what you want is base
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Speaker 1: to peak, right. You want to be above everything else
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Speaker 1: around you so you get a green view. I see,
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Speaker 1: what will give you the best perspective for the views
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Speaker 1: for the views. Yeah, but there's one more caveat which
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Speaker 1: is what if part of the mountain is underwater, Like
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Speaker 1: imagine underwater mounta with only very tip sticking out, or
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Speaker 1: what if it's like cloud covered up to the very tip,
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Speaker 1: you know, then you can't see very much. You just
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Speaker 1: see a little tip. Then you get no views at
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Speaker 1: all if you're standing in the clouds. So, as usual,
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Speaker 1: the deeper we dive into a topic, the more we
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Speaker 1: discover and it's funny and the more board the audience
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Speaker 1: as we keep on discussing the definition of a mountain.
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Speaker 1: But for the podcast, we're just gonna go with, um,
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Speaker 1: you know, I guess the base is what Why had
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Speaker 1: we define the base just where it stops being a mountain? Yeah?
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Speaker 1: And other mountains? Man, you want to start a whole
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Speaker 1: other conversation about where a mountain ends. The whole Earth
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Speaker 1: is one big mountain. I don't know. There you go.
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Speaker 1: The Sun is a mountain, The Milky Way is a mountain. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: but you might be surprised also to learn where the
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Speaker 1: highest mountain is in the Solar system. That's right. And
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Speaker 1: so that's the question we'll be asking today is what
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Speaker 1: is the tallest I we'll go with tallestan what is
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Speaker 1: the tallest mountain in the Solar system? By which I
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Speaker 1: mean really sort of what's the biggest one, because it's
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Speaker 1: really just about size and impressiveness, and I don't know
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Speaker 1: for me, the word tallest doesn't convey that good levels.
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Speaker 1: So we're asking what is the tallest? What is the
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Speaker 1: most confusing podcast system? What is it the tallest mountain
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Speaker 1: in the Solar system? And you might be surprised it's
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Speaker 1: not here on Earth, it's not even on Mars even
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Speaker 1: or Jupiter. And so we'll get to the answer here
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Speaker 1: at the end of the podcast. But first we were
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Speaker 1: wondering how knowledgeable people are about mountains in the Solar
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Speaker 1: system and if people knew where is the tallest mountain
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Speaker 1: in the Solar system? So I walk around campus that
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Speaker 1: you see Irvine before it was shut down, and I
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Speaker 1: asked people where was the tallest mountain in the Solar System?
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Speaker 1: And none of them, you'll notice, gave me the flat
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Speaker 1: that you just gave me. None of them said, well,
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Speaker 1: do you mean biggest or tallest? I want a clear definition.
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Speaker 1: They all understood what I meant. Well they are you
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Speaker 1: see your fine students, he said, in the most positive
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Speaker 1: complementary way possible. And that's right. Yeah, And so people
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Speaker 1: had opinions about this. Think about it for a second,
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Speaker 1: if some want to ask you, where are you thought
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Speaker 1: the tallest mountain in the Solar System is? What would
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Speaker 1: you say? Mount Everest? Mount Everest? There's no bigger mountain
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Speaker 1: somewhere else in the Solar System. Maybe somewhere in Jupiter.
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Speaker 1: I don't know. Probably not on Earth, but it might be.
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Speaker 1: I'm assuming not. We're not what planet do things like?
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Speaker 1: You have bigger mountains? The biggest mountain in the Solar System? Oh,
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Speaker 1: that's a hard question. Um, I don't know if I
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Speaker 1: could say for sure. I'm gonna assume that it's not
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Speaker 1: on Earth, that it's probably on a separate planet within
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Speaker 1: our Solar system. Um. Yeah, So which which planet you
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Speaker 1: think it's post like? M hmm, I'm going to say Mars? Mars? Yeah?
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Speaker 1: How come? Um? I would assume based on how gaseous
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Speaker 1: some of the larger planets are. I'm not sure in
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Speaker 1: terms of the planets that are closest to the Sun.
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Speaker 1: I guess I really don't know a ton about planets
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Speaker 1: in general. Marsh don't how do you post? Right? For sure?
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Speaker 1: Heard it's similar? But does it make sense to you
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Speaker 1: that Mars is the biggest mountain given that it's like
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Speaker 1: tektomic you're not an active uh not totally, alright, I
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Speaker 1: guess I always just thought, even if it has like
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Speaker 1: less tectonic activity, Mars is a little smaller than Earth,
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Speaker 1: so I guess conceivably, I don't like in the Earth.
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Speaker 1: Oh no, um, Mount Everest in the marsh. I know
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Speaker 1: there's I know, the highest mountain of the Olympics or something.
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Speaker 1: I forgot a name. Alright, A lot of great guesses,
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Speaker 1: I mean, know what he said, like Mount Trasta in California.
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Speaker 1: People went to other planets right away. They're like, it's
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Speaker 1: on Mars, It's on Jupiter's Mount Everest. What do you think?
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Speaker 1: What do you think of the Jupiter answer? That one
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Speaker 1: puzzled me a little bit, Like, how do you imagine
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Speaker 1: a mountain on Jupiter? Well, imagine a triangular shape, Daniel.
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Speaker 1: Is that how you start everything? Physicists start everything with
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Speaker 1: a spear engineer start everything with a triangle. No, like Jupiter, Like,
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Speaker 1: I don't. It doesn't have a surface. You can't really
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Speaker 1: have mount It's not a rocky planet. I was wondering
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Speaker 1: what was going through their minds as they were saying
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Speaker 1: Jupiter and the imagining, I mean, Jupiter is mostly a
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Speaker 1: gas planet. Yeah, I mean it's got you know, gas,
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Speaker 1: and then like metallic hydrogen oceans, and then the very
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Speaker 1: core there might be something rocky which could I guess
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Speaker 1: have features on it, But that's not really a mountain
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Speaker 1: the way we're thinking. But isn't the core made out
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Speaker 1: of like frozen gas or like you said, metallic gas, canny,
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Speaker 1: you have mountains in those? Yeah, I suppose you could.
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Speaker 1: And I think there might even be some rock and
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Speaker 1: some ice there in the core of Jupiter. But is
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Speaker 1: that really a mountain? I mean, if it's under an
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Speaker 1: ocean of liquid hydrogen, like if it's under water, you know,
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Speaker 1: just regular water here on Earth, do you still consider
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Speaker 1: it a mountain? Yes, definitely. Okay, so a mountain could
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Speaker 1: be covered in liquid, could be covering Look what I
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Speaker 1: see where you're going with this. I'm not sure that
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Speaker 1: this is where those people were going though. I think
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Speaker 1: they were just like, Jupiter is big, therefore biggest mountains.
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Speaker 1: Oh right, They're like, what's the biggest planet, Surely that
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Speaker 1: must have the biggest mountain exactly. I think that's what
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Speaker 1: they were doing. Yeah, well that makes sense, And so
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Speaker 1: let's get into this question of what is the tallest
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Speaker 1: mountain in the Solar system. And so first, what makes
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Speaker 1: a tall mountain? Daniels. So it turns out, what's the
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Speaker 1: recipe for making a mountain? At rocks stir four min
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Speaker 1: into a triangular shape? You start with your triangle cookie
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Speaker 1: cutter exactly. You get your triangle shape pan out. Um. No,
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Speaker 1: it turns out there are three ways to make a mountain. Right,
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Speaker 1: you are designing your your planet and you want a
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Speaker 1: big mountain. There's three techniques you can use. And the
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Speaker 1: first one is probably the one people are most familiar with,
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Speaker 1: and that's just have tech tonics. Right. That means you've
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Speaker 1: got these big plates of Earth or whatever your mountain
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Speaker 1: is called, banging around and slamming into each other and
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Speaker 1: pushing against each other. And where they push, they tend
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Speaker 1: to like ride up on top of each other. And
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Speaker 1: then you get mountains like your famous Himalayas. Oh, that's
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Speaker 1: how the Himalayas reformed, like two giant plates and they
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Speaker 1: crash and what comes up is the mountain. Yeah, India
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Speaker 1: basically backed up into China and the result is the Himalayas.
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Speaker 1: I'm not saying whose fault it is, you know, but
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Speaker 1: they exchange phone numbers, insurance information, and they're like, oh,
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Speaker 1: look what we made. China was right there. India just
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Speaker 1: like ran right into it. I mean, I know who
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Speaker 1: I'm who I'm siding with on that on that conflict.
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Speaker 1: And and so that's one way to make montains is
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Speaker 1: is having plates crashing into each other. But you can
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Speaker 1: also make them other ways, right, yeah, exactly. You can
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Speaker 1: also build up a mountain by spewing up um magma
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Speaker 1: from underneath the earth. Like you got a crack and
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Speaker 1: the magma spews up, you get a volcano. The lava
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Speaker 1: comes out and it builds up a mountain. And it's
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Speaker 1: that's like slowly deposit lava layer after layer after layer,
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Speaker 1: and it adds up and eventually you get a mountain.
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Speaker 1: You know, like Hawaii. Hawaii exists. It's basically the tip
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Speaker 1: of a mountain that starts at the bottom of the ocean.
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Speaker 1: You can you can grow a mountain too, exactly. It's
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Speaker 1: like a chia pet. Yeah, yeah, there you go. And um,
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Speaker 1: you know there's lots of famous volcanic mountains, you know,
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Speaker 1: like Mountain Vesuvius. Right, it's a mountain and it's there
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Speaker 1: because it's been positing lava and building itself up year
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Speaker 1: after year. And it's also interesting, like the tectonic ones,
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Speaker 1: they build up very gradually and then they get worn
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Speaker 1: down by the weather, and so they have to sort
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Speaker 1: of life cycle where they get taller and taller and taller,
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Speaker 1: and and they and they're pointy and then they get
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Speaker 1: sort of softer and round. Me Like, you can tell
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Speaker 1: how old a mountain ranges by how sharp and craggy
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Speaker 1: it is. Like the Rocky Mountains are pretty young, whereas
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Speaker 1: the Smoky Mountains in the eastern United States are kind
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Speaker 1: of old because they're all like smoothed over on the
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Speaker 1: top from like wind or just from like they collapse
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Speaker 1: from like wind and rain. Yeah, weather Man, Yeah, they
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Speaker 1: just get worn down. They're old and old and busted.
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Speaker 1: And the Rockies the hot new mountains. But the volcanic
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Speaker 1: mountains they're dynamic, right, Like they just keep adding more layers.
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Speaker 1: You know. It's like that guy who keeps putting new
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Speaker 1: rooms in his house. But they also collapse, right because
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Speaker 1: they're like sometimes doesn't the lava create like cavities underneath
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Speaker 1: and then they end up collassing. Yeah, they're unstable in
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Speaker 1: totally different ways, and so like the life cycle of
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Speaker 1: these tectonic ones and the volcanic ones are pretty different. Cool,
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Speaker 1: and so what are some other ways we can make them? All? Right?
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Speaker 1: So then the last one is sort of my favorite way,
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Speaker 1: which is you have is it aliens? Aliens could probably
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Speaker 1: build mountains. Man, that would have four ways? What can
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Speaker 1: aliens do? Know? This one is cool because it's so dramatic,
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Speaker 1: Like this one happens when you have a big cosmic impact,
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Speaker 1: like you have a huge crater, you know, like a
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Speaker 1: big asteroid hits the planet and it creates a big
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Speaker 1: collision and that can lead to mountains. But wait, I
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Speaker 1: would imagine it just makes a big hole. How can
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Speaker 1: it make a mountain unless you create a hole? And
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Speaker 1: then that you can count that as the base of
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Speaker 1: where does the rock from the whole go up, up,
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Speaker 1: up and out? Well there's that, But where does the
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Speaker 1: rock from the hole go up and out and it
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Speaker 1: comes back down? And the idea is that it like
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Speaker 1: it creates often mountains along the rim, Like if you
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Speaker 1: look up at a picture of meteor crater, that big
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Speaker 1: meteor crater in Arizona, you'll see that it has a
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Speaker 1: rim and that rim is raised up not just above
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Speaker 1: the bay of the crater, but also relative to the
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Speaker 1: ground near it. Right, So I guess the meteor or
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Speaker 1: something falls, or the aliens crash land, Aliens land their
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Speaker 1: really big ship. Yeah, and then it pushes everything out.
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Speaker 1: And that's another way to create a mountain, because you're
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Speaker 1: you're pushing earthly. Yeah, and it's sort of weird, like
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Speaker 1: on one hand, you're throwing rocks up into the air
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Speaker 1: and that eject us sort of land and they can
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Speaker 1: pile up. But also there's some sort of compression wave.
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Speaker 1: Because if you look at some of these mountains, and
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Speaker 1: we'll talk about them, they're pretty crazy. They're really sharp,
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Speaker 1: and some of these really big craters they have like
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Speaker 1: a secondary ring around it, Like you have the first
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Speaker 1: ring at the very edge of the crater, and then
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Speaker 1: some of them have like multiple rings around them. And
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Speaker 1: scientists don't understand it. It's like controversial. Actually reached out
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Speaker 1: to a friend of mine's a planetary scientist, and he said,
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Speaker 1: the formation of these multiple rings is controversial, but there's
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Speaker 1: some thought that they represent the imprints of seismic waves
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Speaker 1: that propagate out from the impact point. So just like
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Speaker 1: the shock wave, it just somehow like pops mountains up
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Speaker 1: and then they reason place. Yeah, pretty cool, it's pretty crazy.
18:03
Speaker 1: It's pretty crazy. Thank you forgot aliens making snow angels
18:07
Speaker 1: giant aliens lying down. I didn't forget it. I thought
18:11
Speaker 1: of it and rected this is a science podcast and
18:16
Speaker 1: not Jorge makes stuff up. Did you actually consider it?
18:20
Speaker 1: I thought, Jorge will suggest this. I have to have
18:22
Speaker 1: a response. Right where where? Where are your references? Daniel
18:26
Speaker 1: proved to me that it's not possible. Okay, I'll go
18:30
Speaker 1: to the experiment. All right, Well let's get into now,
18:33
Speaker 1: what is the tallest mountain in the Solar System? Is
18:35
Speaker 1: it here on Earth? Is it on Jupiter? Is it
18:37
Speaker 1: on Mars? But first let's take a quick break. All right, Daniel,
18:54
Speaker 1: we're talking about the tallest and or the biggest mountains
18:57
Speaker 1: in the Solar System, and so I think we should
18:59
Speaker 1: maybe start here on Earth. What do you think since
19:02
Speaker 1: we're here I was before I was kidnapped by the
19:04
Speaker 1: Aliens and forced to broadcast this podcast from their orbiting
19:09
Speaker 1: mother ship. You'll be sponsored by the mountain Duke of Venus.
19:14
Speaker 1: That's right, the extreme Aliens. Well, even if we begin
19:17
Speaker 1: here on Earth, there's already something of a controversy about
19:21
Speaker 1: what's the tallest mountain on Earth? Really, you mean scientists
19:24
Speaker 1: can't agree on stuff. I think it's actually engineers debating
19:28
Speaker 1: the details of definitions, because your go to answer is
19:32
Speaker 1: Mount Everest. Right, it's like eight point eight kilometers above
19:36
Speaker 1: sea level. It's the highest point on Earth. Right, highest
19:39
Speaker 1: point above sea level. And that's a famous mountain. It's beautiful,
19:42
Speaker 1: lots of people have died trying to climb in. It's
19:44
Speaker 1: totally extreme. Guess its props and as we said before,
19:47
Speaker 1: it's like the Mount Everest of mountains. It's the Mount
19:51
Speaker 1: Everest of Mount Everest. And it's a tectonic one, right
19:54
Speaker 1: it comes. It's part of this incredible chain of mountains
19:57
Speaker 1: in the Himalayas. Oh really wow. And it was quite
20:00
Speaker 1: a collision India into China. I think that was actually
20:03
Speaker 1: still happening. Like I think Mount Everest is getting taller
20:05
Speaker 1: every year. It actually grows about a quarter inch every year,
20:09
Speaker 1: and that's because the slow motion collision between India and
20:12
Speaker 1: China is still happening. And so India like hasn't stopped.
20:16
Speaker 1: It ran right into China and it's just like pressed
20:18
Speaker 1: on the gas pedal and it's just pushing and pushing
20:20
Speaker 1: and pushing, and so this rocket just going up and
20:23
Speaker 1: up and up. But wait, isn't sea levels also going up?
20:25
Speaker 1: So isn't that raising some of that fullness? That is
20:30
Speaker 1: a very good point. Climate change is going to bring
20:33
Speaker 1: down Mount Everest. That's maybe the least important consequence of
20:37
Speaker 1: climate change. But there's another contender, right, There's another contender,
20:43
Speaker 1: which is Manukea. Manokea is a volcanic mountain in the
20:47
Speaker 1: Pacific and it's only four point two kilometers of a
20:51
Speaker 1: sea level, but that's because most of its underwater. If
20:54
Speaker 1: you went from the tip of Manukea down to the
20:57
Speaker 1: base at the bottom of the ocean floor, that's more
21:00
Speaker 1: than ten kilometers. Wow. So that's ah, that's a whole
21:03
Speaker 1: kilometer and a half bigger than Mount Everest. So I
21:06
Speaker 1: know it like would look down in Mount Everest and
21:08
Speaker 1: laugh at how pathetic it is. It's Hawaiian, so it's
21:12
Speaker 1: probably pretty chill. It would be pretty friendly. The goddess,
21:15
Speaker 1: it's the goddess of Lavas, who would probably be you know,
21:18
Speaker 1: be like, hey, yeah, so I bet Hawaiian's out there.
21:22
Speaker 1: Think of Manukea as the tallest mountain or the biggest mountain.
21:25
Speaker 1: Also it's definitely wider, like these volcanic mountains tend to
21:28
Speaker 1: be pretty wide because the lava doesn't just pile up
21:30
Speaker 1: in one spot, right, it flows. So but going back
21:34
Speaker 1: to right definition, it would be the biggest mountain, right
21:36
Speaker 1: because it doesn't matter if it's underwater or partly underwater
21:39
Speaker 1: or partly under clouds. We're talking like based to peak,
21:42
Speaker 1: based to peak, Monukea hands down the biggest mountain on Earth. Okay,
21:45
Speaker 1: so that's here on Earth. That's the biggest mountain we
21:47
Speaker 1: have here on Earth. It's bigger than anything else. There's
21:50
Speaker 1: no bigger feature on this planet on this planet. That's right.
21:53
Speaker 1: That's the best we could do, all right. Then now
21:55
Speaker 1: let's go into other planets in this Solar system and
21:58
Speaker 1: let's start I guess with the when the one clusest
22:01
Speaker 1: of the Sun. What's going on in Mercury, what's the
22:03
Speaker 1: How big are the mountains and Mercury. So Mercury is
22:05
Speaker 1: not that impressive. It's a small little planet and it
22:08
Speaker 1: doesn't have like tectonic activity or crazy volcanoes, but it
22:13
Speaker 1: is impacted a lot. So these huge rocks hit Mercury
22:16
Speaker 1: and create these features and there's this one feature on Mercury.
22:20
Speaker 1: It's an enormous impact and it's called the colorous Mantes
22:24
Speaker 1: and it has these rings around the edge of it
22:26
Speaker 1: that are three kilometers above the plane. Oh, I guess
22:30
Speaker 1: there's no sea level in Mercury, is there? There's this
22:33
Speaker 1: third level, no sea level? Yeah, exactly, it's what we're
22:36
Speaker 1: just doing based to peak, right as the sea levels
22:37
Speaker 1: are relevant. So based to peak. This thing that rings
22:40
Speaker 1: this crater is three kilometers. It's sort of hard to imagine.
22:43
Speaker 1: It's like these sharp spikes that are ringing around this crater,
22:47
Speaker 1: and it's it's a pretty high. You know, this is
22:49
Speaker 1: not a little bump. Three kilometers is nothing to sneeze,
22:52
Speaker 1: a pretty tall. It's like um as big as Mountea
22:55
Speaker 1: sea level, almost as high above sea level as Maniche is. Yeah,
22:59
Speaker 1: and it's much narrower. Right, These impact mountains are these
23:03
Speaker 1: impact features, whatever you want to call them, a much
23:05
Speaker 1: narrower because they come from these explosions. They're more like shards, right,
23:09
Speaker 1: They're not built up slowly. They're more dramatic. Yes, they're
23:12
Speaker 1: very dramatic. All right, So that's very creat What about Venus?
23:15
Speaker 1: What does Venus have Venus is pretty impressive. It has
23:18
Speaker 1: tectonic activity and its tallest mountain is called the skady
23:22
Speaker 1: Mons and it's six and a half kilometers high, so
23:26
Speaker 1: it doesn't match Mount Everest. And it's a tectonic mountain,
23:30
Speaker 1: so it's formed by you know, crushing together of these plates.
23:33
Speaker 1: But the weirdest thing about this mountain is Venus's atmosphere. Right. Remember,
23:37
Speaker 1: Venus is really weird. And people think that Venus once
23:41
Speaker 1: looked like Earth, that it once had a nice temper
23:44
Speaker 1: climate and maybe even oceans, and then it was hit
23:47
Speaker 1: by huge meteor that caused basically climate change and a
23:51
Speaker 1: runaway greenhouse effect. They heated it up, and now the
23:54
Speaker 1: atmosphere is crazy and it's like nine degrees on the
23:57
Speaker 1: surface of Venus. And so the surface of this mountain
24:02
Speaker 1: is covered in metallic snow flakes of lead that have
24:06
Speaker 1: precipitated lead. The snow snow made of flakes of lead. Yeah. Like,
24:12
Speaker 1: now talk about extreme skiing. That's like a quadruple black
24:17
Speaker 1: diamond right there with a couple of crossbones, just to
24:21
Speaker 1: make sure you don't ski on the It's a lead
24:23
Speaker 1: diamond and it's hard to understand, like the weather on
24:26
Speaker 1: the surface because not only is it really hot to
24:29
Speaker 1: imagine this stuff would just melt, it's also really high pressure.
24:32
Speaker 1: So the phase diagrams are pretty complicated, so you can
24:34
Speaker 1: get stuff that's solid at higher temperatures than it would
24:37
Speaker 1: be here on Earth because of the pressure. Oh I see,
24:39
Speaker 1: it's not just hot nine out trees, it's also super
24:42
Speaker 1: high pressure, really high pressure. So yeah, not a good place.
24:46
Speaker 1: I do not recommend skiing on castle. That's key vacation. Yeah,
24:50
Speaker 1: everything we've sent to the surface of Venus like has
24:52
Speaker 1: lasted for you know, minutes and then been crushed because
24:57
Speaker 1: the because of the pressure. Alright, but still that's a
25:00
Speaker 1: pretty big mountains six point four kilometers and it's like
25:03
Speaker 1: time we know it's tectonic because you can see the
25:05
Speaker 1: plates on Venus kind of coming together or they're just
25:07
Speaker 1: not in the form of a ring. They're not in
25:09
Speaker 1: the form of a ring, and it doesn't look like
25:10
Speaker 1: volcanic and so they've deduced from looking at the surface
25:13
Speaker 1: of Venus that there's tectonic activity. I don't know if
25:15
Speaker 1: they know exactly where the edges of those plates are,
25:18
Speaker 1: but this definitely looks like a tectonic mountain. Well, it's
25:20
Speaker 1: interesting to think that Earth has bigger mountains than all
25:23
Speaker 1: of these other planets so far. Ye, and remember that
25:26
Speaker 1: Earth is bigger than Mercury, right, so you'd expect a
25:28
Speaker 1: bigger planet to have larger features, just sort of like proportionally.
25:32
Speaker 1: And Earth is about the same size as Venus. It's
25:34
Speaker 1: pretty close, and so you expect them to be about
25:36
Speaker 1: the same size. And hey, you know, it's not far off.
25:39
Speaker 1: So I understand why you imagine a bigger planet would
25:42
Speaker 1: have bigger mountains, But it's actually sort of the opposite
25:45
Speaker 1: later when we get to Mars, which is confusing. So
25:47
Speaker 1: having a bigger planet doesn't mean have bigger mountains, not necessarily.
25:51
Speaker 1: How about tallest mountains, triangulist mountains, square mountains? All right, Well,
25:57
Speaker 1: that takes us to somewhere else in the Solar System.
25:59
Speaker 1: Where else can we find big mountains? Apparently that we
26:03
Speaker 1: can have mounts, not just some planets. We can also
26:04
Speaker 1: have him on moons. Yeah, we can have them on
26:06
Speaker 1: the moons. So our moon has a pretty impressive feature.
26:09
Speaker 1: It's mons hygans and it's five and a half kilometers
26:12
Speaker 1: high from an impact almost four billion years ago, some
26:16
Speaker 1: huge thing hit it that was like two hundred and
26:18
Speaker 1: fifty kilometers wide, and so you have this crazy crater
26:22
Speaker 1: with edges of it that have these features of it
26:25
Speaker 1: that are almost six kilometers up and you can see
26:28
Speaker 1: him in a ring. Can you see him from earth
26:30
Speaker 1: or is it on the other side of the moon.
26:31
Speaker 1: You can see them from Earth and can study them
26:33
Speaker 1: in a telescope, and so they're pretty impressive. Cool, and
26:36
Speaker 1: it's it's our moon. Is not the only moon with mountains,
26:39
Speaker 1: that's right, And they get harder and harder to pronounce.
26:41
Speaker 1: And if you get further out, Yes, does our moon
26:44
Speaker 1: have a name or is it just the moon? Our
26:46
Speaker 1: moon is called Luna and our sun is called Soul.
26:49
Speaker 1: Did you just make that up? I know that it's
26:51
Speaker 1: Soul has it's the name of our sun. But I
26:53
Speaker 1: never heard our moon called Luna. It's called Luna. Check
26:56
Speaker 1: it nice. But the moon Io has a feature called
27:00
Speaker 1: boy bussal Mantes and it's eighteen kilometers high. What, yes,
27:06
Speaker 1: eighteen kilometers so it like blows away Mount Everest, blows
27:10
Speaker 1: away Monica. So Io is a moon of what Jupiter? Saturn?
27:14
Speaker 1: I was a moon of Jupiter and it's the most
27:17
Speaker 1: volcanically active world in the whole Solar system. So it's
27:20
Speaker 1: got a lot of stuff going on, the most volcanically
27:23
Speaker 1: active volcanoes Everywhere's a lot of stuff going on on
27:26
Speaker 1: the inside of Io, and that also leads to tectonic activity.
27:30
Speaker 1: And so this thing is actually a tectonic mountain on Io.
27:33
Speaker 1: And it's eighteen kilometers high. So that's pretty impressive. It's
27:37
Speaker 1: like twice the height of Mount Everest. Yeah, and I
27:41
Speaker 1: was pretty impressed until I started reading about the moons
27:43
Speaker 1: of Saturn. Now there's one moon of Saturn called Us
27:47
Speaker 1: and this one is so weird. It's got a ridge
27:50
Speaker 1: all the way around the equator that's twenty kilometers high.
27:54
Speaker 1: It looks sort of like a like a walnut, you know,
27:57
Speaker 1: like a spherical object with a ring around on the
28:00
Speaker 1: edge of it, like a belt, Like it has a belt. Yeah,
28:02
Speaker 1: it's like a like love handles, like love handles, maybe
28:07
Speaker 1: it ate a bunch of other moods. And it goes
28:09
Speaker 1: all the way around. It goes three quarters of the
28:11
Speaker 1: way around, three quarters of the way around. Nobody understands it,
28:14
Speaker 1: nobody knows why, nobody knows how. Like somebody squished the planet,
28:17
Speaker 1: like took it from top to bottom and it squished
28:19
Speaker 1: and like bulget out mountains in the middle. Definitely some
28:22
Speaker 1: interesting history there. And you know, it's not a small feature.
28:25
Speaker 1: It's twenty kilometers high, so and it would be all around,
28:30
Speaker 1: so it's like Manukea plus mount Everest not even as
28:33
Speaker 1: tall as and it would just you would see it
28:35
Speaker 1: as this mountain range that just keeps going off into
28:38
Speaker 1: the horizon in both directions. It's a really weird feature. Yeah.
28:43
Speaker 1: All right, Well, we are getting closer to the biggest mountain,
28:46
Speaker 1: the tallest mountain in the Solar System, and so we'll
28:50
Speaker 1: we've we've we've come down to the final two and
28:53
Speaker 1: so let's get into what they are, where they are,
28:56
Speaker 1: and how tall they are. But first let's take a
28:58
Speaker 1: quick break. All right, So we're talking about the tallest
29:14
Speaker 1: mountain in the Solar System. Our first runner up for
29:17
Speaker 1: tallest mountain is not here on Earth. It's not on
29:19
Speaker 1: any Moon, it's not on Jupiter. It's actually on Mars. Yeah.
29:23
Speaker 1: It's sort of amazing little Mars, right, It's much smaller
29:27
Speaker 1: than Earth but has much bigger features. It's very dramatic.
29:31
Speaker 1: And this mountain on Mars is the Olympus Mons and
29:34
Speaker 1: it's almost twenty two kilometers high. I remember Mount Never
29:39
Speaker 1: almost nine kilometers. Mount o Kea, our tallest volcano is
29:43
Speaker 1: ten kilometers. This thing is too. It's basically called Mount Olympus,
29:48
Speaker 1: like the Greek exactly. It definitely wins the Olympics of mountains.
29:53
Speaker 1: It's enormous and it's and it's not just tall, right,
29:57
Speaker 1: it's also it's also really big becau because there's not
30:01
Speaker 1: that much gravity on Mars, and so it's sort of
30:04
Speaker 1: flows and becomes really broad, and the whole mountain if
30:08
Speaker 1: you look at like the edges of it, it goes
30:10
Speaker 1: it's like the size of France. Wow, if you were
30:12
Speaker 1: to walk from the tip to the base, it'd be
30:14
Speaker 1: like walking from the center of France to the border. Yeah.
30:17
Speaker 1: You can take like the outline of this mountain and
30:20
Speaker 1: superimposed on France and you're like, yeah, that's about the
30:22
Speaker 1: same side. Do you think that's cheating a little bit? Though?
30:25
Speaker 1: Like if you have less gravity, does that is that
30:28
Speaker 1: like steroids? Kind of in the Olympics that mountain rises
30:31
Speaker 1: because it's like or you know how they it's easier
30:33
Speaker 1: to run and the higher altitudes because there's less gravity.
30:37
Speaker 1: You know, Yeah, I think people were thinking bigger planet,
30:40
Speaker 1: bigger mountains, But you're right, smaller planet, less gravity, bigger features,
30:44
Speaker 1: easier to maintain a big mountain, yeah, and easier to
30:47
Speaker 1: build it up and easier to maintain it. Things don't
30:49
Speaker 1: roll down as much. And so that's pretty impressive. That's
30:52
Speaker 1: twenty one nine kilometers And it's volcanic, right, it's stuff
30:56
Speaker 1: spewing out from the inside of Mars. Mars doesn't have
30:59
Speaker 1: tectonic activity as far as we know, so volcanoes are impact.
31:03
Speaker 1: Is the only way Mars could get up onto this list.
31:06
Speaker 1: And this is a volcanic mountain, right, And so that's
31:08
Speaker 1: the biggest mountain on a planet in the Solar System,
31:12
Speaker 1: that's right. Like that's if you're just counting planets or moons,
31:15
Speaker 1: that's it. Is this the biggest mont that's it. That's
31:17
Speaker 1: the number one feature on a planet in the Solar System.
31:20
Speaker 1: But but the most impressive is a really, really weird
31:26
Speaker 1: feature is on an asteroid, an asteroid. It's not even
31:30
Speaker 1: on a planet. It's not even on a planet. It's
31:33
Speaker 1: not even on a moon. It's on an asteroid. There's
31:36
Speaker 1: this one asteroid in the asteroid belt. It's pretty big
31:39
Speaker 1: it's like five hundred kilometers wide, which is sizeable for
31:43
Speaker 1: an asteroid, and it's got this feature on it from
31:47
Speaker 1: an impact crater. And the the thing you have to understand
31:49
Speaker 1: is that the crater itself is four hundred kilometers wa
31:53
Speaker 1: wait wait what what? Wait? Wait? So how can it's
31:56
Speaker 1: like the most of the asteroid is a crater. Yes,
31:59
Speaker 1: the whole like back half of this thing, the south
32:01
Speaker 1: pole is this thing is just a big crater. Like
32:05
Speaker 1: this thing was totally rear ended and it didn't get
32:08
Speaker 1: any insurance information because nobody fixed this thing up. Like
32:11
Speaker 1: the whole back of this thing was just blown out
32:13
Speaker 1: in a big crater. It's like it's like if you
32:14
Speaker 1: take an apple and you take a giant bite out
32:17
Speaker 1: of it, that's kind of what you get. Yeah. Yeah,
32:21
Speaker 1: but it's even weirder because this impact happened like a
32:24
Speaker 1: billion years ago. But the mountain is actually at the
32:26
Speaker 1: center and that's something I don't understand at all. And
32:30
Speaker 1: the mountain has this name, it's called Rhea Silva. And
32:33
Speaker 1: the mountain at the center of this crater is twenty
32:37
Speaker 1: two kilometers high, so it's like just taller than that
32:40
Speaker 1: mountain on Mark. Wait. Wait, okay, so um. So, the
32:43
Speaker 1: biggest mountain in the Solar System is not on a planet.
32:46
Speaker 1: It's on an asteroid called what Vesta is the name
32:49
Speaker 1: of the asteroid Vesta, and the asteroid is five kilometers wide.
32:55
Speaker 1: It has a hole that's four d kilometers wide, and
32:58
Speaker 1: in the middle of that whole is a mountain. It's
33:01
Speaker 1: such a weird structor to think about it. There is
33:03
Speaker 1: weird stuff out there in the Solar System, and that's
33:05
Speaker 1: why I love these episodes, because like it's basically like
33:07
Speaker 1: a bowl, like a flying bowl with a with a
33:10
Speaker 1: mountain of guacamole in the middle, floating out in space.
33:13
Speaker 1: If you had lunch yet, or hey, I think maybe
33:15
Speaker 1: you should have a snack before these episodes. I need
33:18
Speaker 1: another banana. It's pretty weird. I was looking at pictures
33:21
Speaker 1: of this thing and it's definitely something weird to look at. Okay,
33:24
Speaker 1: so if I google it, what does it look like.
33:26
Speaker 1: It looks like a huge hole with a mountain in
33:28
Speaker 1: the middle. It's just a flying hole with with a
33:32
Speaker 1: pimple in the middle. And we've learned a lot about
33:34
Speaker 1: Vesta actually because bits of it have fallen to Earth,
33:37
Speaker 1: like this collision happened a billion years ago, and a
33:40
Speaker 1: lot of the asteroids in the Asteroid belt used to
33:42
Speaker 1: be bits of Vesta, and then some of them fell
33:45
Speaker 1: to Earth, and like, you know, we can pick up
33:47
Speaker 1: a rock here on Earth and we can be like,
33:49
Speaker 1: this rock doesn't seem like it was formed on Earth.
33:51
Speaker 1: It seems like the Moon, or it seems like Mars,
33:54
Speaker 1: or it seems like this weird asteroid. And it's a
33:56
Speaker 1: pretty cool way to explore the Solar System just by
33:58
Speaker 1: finding little bits of it here on Earth. And it's
34:01
Speaker 1: amazing we can track it, like this bit of of
34:03
Speaker 1: I rack came from that asteroid bazillion miles away. Yeah,
34:06
Speaker 1: because a lot of these have their own different history, right,
34:09
Speaker 1: and that leads to different you know, fractions of ice
34:12
Speaker 1: and different kinds of ice, and different kinds of rock
34:15
Speaker 1: and different um you know, heavy metals and stuff. And
34:18
Speaker 1: so from those sort of fingerprints you can tell where
34:21
Speaker 1: a rock came from, which I think is amazing. And
34:23
Speaker 1: so we found bits of Vesta. But Vesta, in my mind,
34:26
Speaker 1: is the champ. It's just slightly edges out Mars, but
34:29
Speaker 1: it is more impressive. Okay, So it has a feature
34:32
Speaker 1: that looks like a mountain. That is a mountain, I
34:34
Speaker 1: guess is a triangular is it? It's just a it's
34:37
Speaker 1: a giant bump that peak two basse is Yeah, And
34:44
Speaker 1: the edges of this crater are also very dramatic. They
34:46
Speaker 1: don't quite rise twenty two kilometers, but they're you know,
34:49
Speaker 1: on the same scale there in the teens. And you're
34:51
Speaker 1: saying it's mostly made out of it's not made out
34:53
Speaker 1: of rock. Yeah, it's like rock and mostly ice, right,
34:56
Speaker 1: And there's people don't understand. There's a lot of ice
34:59
Speaker 1: out there in the Solar System. It's huge chunks of it.
35:01
Speaker 1: And like some of those outer planets are icy giants,
35:04
Speaker 1: so there's an enormous amount of water frozen in ice
35:07
Speaker 1: in the outer Solar System. We have no shortage of resources.
35:11
Speaker 1: Like those movies where the aliens come to steal our water.
35:14
Speaker 1: It's like, what are you doing? There's so much more
35:16
Speaker 1: water out there. There's a bunch of ice tomorrow where
35:20
Speaker 1: they're like sucking up our oceans with giant vacuums, and
35:23
Speaker 1: I'm like, what so so that that means the biggest
35:25
Speaker 1: mountain in the Solar System is mostly made out of ice,
35:28
Speaker 1: mostly made out of ice, Yep, it's ice mountain, no kidding.
35:31
Speaker 1: It's like you you can ski on it year round
35:34
Speaker 1: for a long time. I don't know what a year
35:36
Speaker 1: is like on Vesta, but probably probably. I don't think
35:40
Speaker 1: the weather changes very much. And so this is out
35:41
Speaker 1: than in the asteroid belt beyond kind of our planets
35:44
Speaker 1: or in between our planet. It was in the inner
35:47
Speaker 1: asteroid Bell. It's not out in the equiper belt, and
35:49
Speaker 1: so it's not actually too far cool. Well, there you go.
35:52
Speaker 1: That is the biggest mountain, the tallest mountain in the
35:56
Speaker 1: Solar System. It's a meat out of ice and it's
35:58
Speaker 1: in an asteroid, which is pretty amazing. Well, I think
36:01
Speaker 1: we ran down the list, Daniel. We found our champion. Yes,
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