List of mountains on Mars by height - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

This is a list of mountain

Mountain

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Mars

Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun in the Solar System. The planet is named after the Roman god of war, Mars. It is often described as the "Red Planet", as the iron oxide prevalent on its surface gives it a reddish appearance...

by mean surface level. The listed elevations are relative to the Martian datum

Areography

The geography of Mars, also known as areography, entails the delineation and characterization of regions on Mars. Martian geography is mainly focused on what is called physical geography on Earth; that is the distribution of physical features across Mars and their cartographic...

(the elevation defined as zero by average martian atmospheric pressure and planet radius). Elevation is not the height above the surrounding terrain.

A Mons (plural montes) is a term used in astrogeology to name extraterrestrial mountains and may or may not be of volcanic origin.
A Patera refers to the dish-shaped depression atop a volcano that is not very high compared to its diameter.
In planetary geology, a Tholus (pl. tholi) is the term used to describe a small domical mountain or hill.
Listed Mons elevation is the highest point (at 16 pixels/degree) within the feature.
Listed Patera elevation is the average elevation of the shallow dish-shaped depression (the actual 'patera') at the summit.

Notable extreme Terrestrial

Earth

Earth is the third planet from the Sun, and the densest and fifth-largest of the eight planets in the Solar System. It is also the largest of the Solar System's four terrestrial planets...

and Venusian

Venus

Venus is the second planet from the Sun, orbiting it every 224.7 Earth days. The planet is named after Venus, the Roman goddess of love and beauty. After the Moon, it is the brightest natural object in the night sky, reaching an apparent magnitude of −4.6, bright enough to cast shadows...

elevations are included in italics for comparison.

Name	Elevation (m Metre The metre , symbol m, is the base unit of length in the International System of Units . Originally intended to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the Earth's equator to the North Pole , its definition has been periodically refined to reflect growing knowledge of metrology... )
Olympus Mons Olympus Mons Olympus Mons is a large volcanic mountain on the planet Mars. At a height of almost , it is one of the tallest mountains in the Solar System, three times as tall as Mount Everest and more than twice the height of Mauna Kea the tallest mountain on Earth. Olympus Mons is the youngest of the large...	21,171
Ascraeus Mons Ascraeus Mons Ascraeus Mons is a large shield volcano located in the Tharsis region of the planet Mars. It is the northernmost and tallest of three shield volcanoes collectively known as the Tharsis Montes. The volcano's location corresponds to the classical albedo feature Ascraeus Lacus.Ascraeus Mons was...	18,209
Arsia Mons Arsia Mons Arsia Mons is the southernmost of three volcanos on the Tharsis bulge near the equator of the planet Mars. To its north is Pavonis Mons, and north of that is Ascraeus Mons. The tallest mountain in the solar system, Olympus Mons, is to its northwest...	17,779
Pavonis Mons Pavonis Mons Pavonis Mons is a large shield volcano located in the Tharsis region of the planet Mars. It is the middle member of a chain of three volcanic mountains that straddle the Martian equator between longitudes 235°E and 259°E. The volcano was discovered by the Mariner 9 spacecraft in 1971 and was...	14,037
Elysium Mons Elysium Mons Elysium Mons is a volcano on Mars located in the Elysium Planitia, at , in the Martian eastern hemisphere. It stands about 13.9 km above the surrounding lava plains, and about 16 km above the Martian datum. Its diameter is about 240 km, with a summit caldera about 14 km across...	13,862
Maxwell Mons, Venus Maxwell Montes Maxwell Montes is a mountain massif on the planet Venus, part of which contains the highest point on the planet's surface.- General description :... (tallest mountain on Venus)	11,000
Mauna Kea, Earth Mauna Kea Mauna Kea is a volcano on the island of Hawaii. Standing above sea level, its peak is the highest point in the state of Hawaii. However, much of the mountain is under water; when measured from its oceanic base, Mauna Kea is over tall—significantly taller than Mount Everest... (height from ocean floor)	10,203
Mount Everest, Earth Mount Everest Mount Everest is the world's highest mountain, with a peak at above sea level. It is located in the Mahalangur section of the Himalayas. The international boundary runs across the precise summit point... (height from mean sea level)	8,848
Tharsis Tholus Tharsis Tholus Tharsis Tholus is an intermediate-sized shield volcano located in the eastern Tharsis region of the planet Mars. The volcano was discovered by the Mariner 9 spacecraft in 1972 and originally given the informal name Volcano 7. In 1973, the International Astronomical Union officially designated...	8,000–9,000
Biblis Tholus (formerly Patera) Biblis Patera Biblis Tholus is an extinct Martian volcano located at , one of two volcanoes near the center of the Tharsis volcanism. Along with Ulysses Patera, it is almost midway between Olympus Mons and Tharsis Montes...	7,198
Alba Mons (formerly Patera) Alba Patera Alba Mons is an immense, low-lying volcano located in the northern Tharsis region of the planet Mars. It is the largest volcano on Mars in terms of area, with volcanic flow fields that extend for at least 1350 km from its summit...	6,815
Ulysses Tholus (formerly Patera)	5,863
Uranius Mons (formerly Patera)	4,853
Anseris Mons Anseris Mons Anseris Mons is an isolated massif in the southern highlands of Mars, located at the northeastern edge of Hellas Planitia at longitude 86.6°E and latitude 29.81°S. The mountain is in diameter and rises to an elevation of approximately 4,200 m above datum or about 6,200 m above the surrounding...	3,959
Hadriacus Mons (formerly Hadriaca Patera)	3,959
Euripus Mons	3,945
Tyrrhenus Mons (formerly Tyrrhena Patera)	3,920
Promethei Mons	3,789
Chronius Mons	3,240
Apollinaris Mons (formerly Patera)	3,155
Gonnus Mons	2,937
Syrtis Major Planum	2,300
Amphitrites Patera	2,066
Nili Patera	2,036
Pityusa Patera Pityusa Patera Pityusa Patera is a feature in the Mare Australe quadrangle of Mars, located at 67.0° S and 323.1° W. It is 230.0 km across and was named after a classical albedo feature name....	1,877
Malea Patera	1,313
Peneus Patera Peneus Patera Peneus Patera is a feature in the Noachis quadrangle of Mars. It is located at58.1 S and 307.5 W. It was named after an albedo feature at 48S, 290W.- Scalloped Topography :...	1,276
Labeatis Mons	1,143
Issedon Paterae	826
Pindus Mons	704
Meroe Patera	542
Dead Sea, Earth Dead Sea The Dead Sea , also called the Salt Sea, is a salt lake bordering Jordan to the east and Israel and the West Bank to the west. Its surface and shores are below sea level, the lowest elevation on the Earth's surface. The Dead Sea is deep, the deepest hypersaline lake in the world... (depth below sea level)	-420
Orcus Patera	-764
Oceanidum Mons	-1,277
Horarum Mons	-2,325
Peraea Mons	-2,470
Bentley Subglacial Trench, Earth Bentley Subglacial Trench The Bentley Subglacial Trench is a vast topographic trench in Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica, 80°S, 115°W. At 2,555 meters below sea level, it is the lowest point on the surface of the earth not covered by ocean, although it is covered by ice. Most people do not count it as the lowest point on... (depth below sea level)	-2,555
Octantis Mons	-2,731
Galaxius Mons Galaxius Mons Galaxius Mons is a group of mountains in the Cebrenia quadrangle of Mars, located at 35.1 North and 217.8 West. It is 22 km across and was named after a classical albedo name....	-3,972
Challenger Deep, Earth Challenger Deep The Challenger Deep is the deepest known point in the oceans, with a depth of to by direct measurement from submersibles, and slightly more by sonar bathymetry . It is located at the southern end of the Mariana Trench near the Mariana Islands group... (depth below sea level)	-10,924

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Olympus Mons, Arsia Mons, Alba Patera: Viking Orbiter Views of Mars by the Viking Orbiter Imaging Team
Viking program
The Viking program consisted of a pair of American space probes sent to Mars, Viking 1 and Viking 2. Each spacecraft was composed of two main parts, an orbiter designed to photograph the surface of Mars from orbit, and a lander designed to study the planet from the surface...

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Ascraeus Mons: Malin Space Science Systems Release No. MOC2-950 via the Mars Global Surveyor
Mars Global Surveyor
The Mars Global Surveyor was a US spacecraft developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and launched November 1996. It began the United States's return to Mars after a 10-year absence. It completed its primary mission in January 2001 and was in its third extended mission phase when, on 2...

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Pavonis Mons: Malin Space Science Systems Release No. MOC2-481 via the Mars Global Surveyor
Mars Global Surveyor
The Mars Global Surveyor was a US spacecraft developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and launched November 1996. It began the United States's return to Mars after a 10-year absence. It completed its primary mission in January 2001 and was in its third extended mission phase when, on 2...

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Elysium Mons: Malin Space Science Systems via the Mars Global Surveyor
Mars Global Surveyor
The Mars Global Surveyor was a US spacecraft developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and launched November 1996. It began the United States's return to Mars after a 10-year absence. It completed its primary mission in January 2001 and was in its third extended mission phase when, on 2...

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