If Olympus Mons definitively the tallest / largest mountain in our solar system, how do we know the gas giants don’t have similar or larger mountains underneath their thick atmospheres?
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We don’t “know”, but because of the way gravity works, it’s unlikely for any larger solid structures to be inside the gas giants. Any “mountains” would need to withstand eroding winds stronger than anything here on Earth, withstand gravity between 3 and 8x the gravity on Mars, and then also withstand the incredible heat and pressure that comes with being at the core of a gas giant.
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