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What's the Tallest Mountain in the Solar System?

BrainStuff

iHeartPodcasts

Natural Sciences, Technology, Science

4.01.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Even though Earth is the largest rocky body in our solar system, we don't have the largest mountain -- not by a long shot. Learn how Mars took the title in this episode of BrainStuff, based on this article: https://science.howstuffworks.com/tallest-mountain-in-solar-system.htm

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Sometimes the pop culture we love just teens hits differently in retrospect.

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Maybe it's a tabloid story we couldn't get enough of or an illicit student-teacher relationship

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on our favorite show. We're Suzy Banna-Karim and Jessica Bennett,

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posts of the new podcast in retrospect, where each week we'll revisit a cultural moment from

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the past that shaped us and probably you to try to understand what it taught us about the world

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Listen to in retrospect on the iHeart Radio app Apple podcasts or wherever you find your

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1:07.2

Detective Tony Richardson was trying to figure out who killed a fellow officer.

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The case comes down to who is believed and who is ignored. Oh my goodness, we did

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1:35.4

Welcome to Brain Stuff, a production of iHeart Radio.

1:40.1

Hey Brain Stuff, Lauren Vogelbaum here. There's a thrill like no other to reaching the peak of a

1:46.7

mountain and looking down at the landscape below. And it turns out that our highest mountains here

1:53.0

on Earth are actually some of the smallest in our solar system. So what is the tallest mountain

1:58.8

in the solar system? The answer, its location, and its monstrous size might surprise you.

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