List of mountains on the Moon explained

This is a list of mountains on the Moon (with a scope including all named mons and montes, planetary science jargon terms roughly equivalent to 'isolated mountain'/'massif' and 'mountain range').

Caveats

• This list is not comprehensive, as surveying of the Moon is a work in progress.
• Heights are in meters; most peaks have not been surveyed with the precision of a single meter.
• Mountains on the Moon have heights and elevations/altitudes defined relative to various vertical datums (referring to the lunoid), each in turn defined relative to the center of mass (CoM) of the Moon.

— the U.S. Army Mapping Service datum was established 1,737,988 meters from the CoM.

— the U.S. Defense Mapping Agency used 1,730,000 meters.

— The Clementine topographic data use 1,737,400 meters as the baseline, and show a range of about 18,100 meters from lowest to highest point on the Moon.

• This is not a list of the highest places on the Moon, meaning those farthest from the CoM. Rather, it is a list of peaks at various heights relative to the relevant datum. This is because the Moon has mass asymmetries: the highest point, located on the far side of the Moon, is approximately 6,500 meters higher than Mons Huygens (usually listed as the tallest mountain).

List

--TODO: right-alignment for number columns-->	+ Peaks on the Moon	Name	Type	Namesake	Peak coordinates	Peak elevation (m)	Topographic prominence (m)
	mons	Agnes (Greek feminine name, meaning 'lamb')	18.66°N 5.34°W	650 m	30 m
	montes	Georgius Agricola (metallurgist)	29.06°N -54.07°W	141000 m
	montes		48.36°N -0.58°W	281000 m
	mons	André-Marie Ampère (physicist)	19.32°N -3.71°W	3300 m^[1]	3000 m
	mons	André (French masculine name)	5.18°N 120.56°W	10000 m
	montes	Apennine Mountains (Italy)	19.87°N -0.03°W	401000 m
	montes	Archimedes (crater) nearby	25.39°N -5.25°W	163000 m
	mons	Ardeshir (also 'Ardashir'; Persian King, Persian male name)	5.03°N 121.04°W	8000 m
	mons	Mount Erciyes (Asia Minor)	19.33°N 29.01°W	50000 m
	mons	Mont Blanc (the Alps)	45.41°N 0.44°W	3800 m^[2]	3600 m
	mons	James Bradley (astronomer)	21.73°N 0.38°W	4300 m^[3]	4200 m
	montes	Carpathian Mountains (Europe)	14.57°N -23.62°W	361000 m
	montes	Caucasus Mountains (Europe)	37.52°N 9.93°W	445000 m
	montes	cordillera (Spanish for "mountain chain")	-17.5°N -79.5°W	574000 m
	mons	Delisle (crater) nearby	29.42°N -35.79°W	30000 m
	mons	Dieter (German masculine name)	5°N 120.3°W	20000 m
	mons	Dilip (Indian masculine name)	5.58°N 120.87°W	2000 m
	mons	Esam (Arabic masculine name)	14.61°N 35.71°W	8000 m
	mons	Ganau (African masculine name)	4.79°N 120.59°W	14000 m
	mons	Gruithuisen (crater) nearby	36.07°N -39.59°W	20000 m
	mons	Gruithuisen (crater) nearby	36.56°N -40.72°W	900 m
	mons	John Hadley (inventor)	26.69°N 4.12°W	4500 m	4600 m
	mons	Hadley (quod videm) nearby	25.72°N 3.71°W	3900 m^[4]	3500 m
	montes	Haemus (Greek name for the Balkan Mountains)	17.11°N 12.03°W	560000 m
	mons	Hansteen (crater) nearby	-12.19°N -50.21°W	30000 m
	montes		26.89°N -41.29°W	90000 m
	mons	Herodotus (crater) nearby	27.5°N -52.94°W	5000 m
	mons	Christiaan Huygens (astronomer)	19.53°N -2.9°W	3274 m^[5]	5300 m
	montes	Jura Mountains (Europe)	47.49°N -36.11°W	422000 m
	mons	Philippe de la Hire (astronomer)	27.66°N -25.51°W	1500 m	1500 m
	mons	Pierre André Latreille (entomologist)	18.47°N 61.92°W	6400 m	150 m
	mons	Maraldi (lunar crater) nearby	20.34°N 35.5°W	1300 m	1300 m
	mons	Antonio Lazzaro Moro (scientist)	-11.84°N -19.84°W	10000 m
	mons	Melba Roy Mouton (mathematician)	-84.67°N -39.48°W	7026 m	6030 m
	mons	Albrecht Penck (geographer)	-10°N 21.74°W	4000 m	4000 m
	mons	pico (Spanish for "peak")	45.82°N -8.87°W	2400 m	2500 m
	mons	El Pitón, Spain (summit of Mount Teide, Tenerife)	40.72°N -0.92°W	2100 m	2300 m
	montes	Pyrenees Mountains (Europe)	-14.05°N 41.51°W	164000 m
	montes	(Latin for "straight range")	48.3°N -19.72°W	90000 m
	montes	(Greek name for the Ural Mountains, Russia)	-7.48°N -27.6°W	189000 m
	montes	Lawrence Rook (astronomer)	-20.6°N -82.5°W	791000 m
	mons	Karl Ludwig Christian Rümker (astronomer)	40.76°N -58.38°W	1100 m^[6]	500 m
	montes	Secchi (lunar crater) nearby	2.72°N 43.17°W	50000 m
	montes	by resemblance to the Spitsbergen islands (German for "sharp peaks")	34.47°N -5.21°W	60000 m
	montes	Taurus Mountains (Asia Minor)	27.32°N 40.34°W	172000 m
	montes	Tenerife (island)	47.89°N -13.19°W	182000 m
	mons	Mikhail Usov (geologist)	11.91°N 63.26°W	15000 m
	mons	Aleksandr Pavlovich Vinogradov (chemist)	22.35°N -32.52°W	1400 m	1400 m
	mons	Vitruvius (crater) nearby	19.33°N 30.74°W	2300 m	2300 m
	mons		16.88°N -6.8°W	3800 m	3500 m

See also

• List of mountain ranges
• List of features on the Moon
  • Boot Hill
  • Duke Island
• List of craters on the Moon
• List of maria on the Moon
• List of valleys on the Moon
• List of tallest mountains in the Solar System

External links

• List of named lunar mountains in Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature
• Digital Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon

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Notes and References

1. Book: Moore, Patrick . Patrick Moore . On the Moon . Cassell & Co . London . 2001 .
2. Book: Fred W. Price . The Moon observer's handbook . Cambridge University Press . London . 1988 . 0-521-33500-0.
3. Patrick Moore lists the height of Mons Bradley as ; Fred Price as
4. Web site: Shaffer . David . May 25, 2006 . Apollo 15 Surface Journal: Landing at Hadley . NASA . 2006-11-08 .
5. https://moonsummits.carrd.co The Moon's Highs and Lows
6. Wöhler, C. . Lena, R. . Pau, K. C. . The Lunar Dome Complex Mons Rümker: Morphometry, Rheology, and Mode of Emplacement . Proceedings Lunar and Planetary Science XXXVIII . Dordrecht, D. Reidel Publishing Co . March 12–16, 2007 . 1338 . 1091 . League City, Texas . 2007LPI....38.1091W . 2007-08-28 .