Mt Everest is just under 5.5miles high. Olympus Mons on Mars is 16 miles high. Why aren’t there much larger mountains on Earth? What’s the highest a mountain can go on Earth?
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Ugh these are all incorrect, or misunderstandings. The reason they aren’t tens of km high is because of EROSION. That can be influenced by gravity, but it’s primarily freeze thaw, rain, earthquakes, and the rock not having the sheer strength for chunks of rock to fall off. The taller a mountain gets your angles increase and thus it’s more susceptible to being eroded.
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