List of mountains on the Moon

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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.
    Template:Circa — the U.S. Army Mapping Service datum was established 1,737,988 meters from the CoM.
    Template:Circa — the U.S. Defense Mapping Agency used 1,730,000 meters.
    Template:Circa — 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

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Peaks on the Moon
Name Type Namesake Peak coordinates Peak elevation (m) Topographic prominence (m)
Agnes mons Agnes (Greek feminine name, meaning 'lamb') Template:Coord 650 m 30 m
Agricola montes Georgius Agricola (metallurgist) Template:Coord Template:Unknown
Alpes montes Alps (Europe) Template:Coord Template:Unknown
Ampère mons André-Marie Ampère (physicist) Template:Coord 3300 m<ref name="moore">Template:Cite book</ref> 3000 m
André mons André (French masculine name) Template:Coord Template:Unknown
Apenninus montes Apennine Mountains (Italy) Template:Coord Template:Unknown
Archimedes montes Archimedes (crater) nearby Template:Coord Template:Unknown
Ardeshir mons Ardeshir (also 'Ardashir'; Persian King, Persian male name) Template:Coord Template:Unknown
Argaeus mons Mount Erciyes (Asia Minor) Template:Coord Template:Unknown
Blanc mons Mont Blanc (the Alps) Template:Coord 3800 m<ref name="price">Template:Cite book</ref> 3600 m
Bradley mons James Bradley (astronomer) Template:Coord 4300 m<ref>Patrick Moore lists the height of Mons Bradley as Template:Convert; Fred Price as Template:Convert</ref> 4200 m
Carpatus montes Carpathian Mountains (Europe) Template:Coord Template:Unknown
Caucasus montes Caucasus Mountains (Europe) Template:Coord Template:Unknown
Cordillera montes cordillera (Spanish for "mountain chain") Template:Coord Template:Unknown
Delisle mons Delisle (crater) nearby Template:Coord Template:Unknown
Dieter mons Dieter (German masculine name) Template:Coord Template:Unknown
Dilip mons Dilip (Indian masculine name) Template:Coord 2000 m Template:Unknown
Esam mons Esam (Arabic masculine name) Template:Coord 6622 m<ref name=61A2S1>61A2S1(50), Grace. Lunar Topophotomap Series. Publisher: Defense Mapping Agency, Topographic Center. Scale: 1:50,000. Projection: Transverse Mercator.</ref> 400 m<ref name=61A2S1/>
Ganau mons Ganau (African masculine name) Template:Coord Template:Unknown
Gruithuisen Delta mons Gruithuisen (crater) nearby Template:Coord Template:Unknown
Gruithuisen Gamma mons Gruithuisen (crater) nearby Template:Coord 1500 m<ref>Mons Gruithuisen Gamma, Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature, International Astronomical Union (IAU) Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN)</ref><ref>LROC Quickmap, DEM contours layer</ref> Template:Unknown
Hadley mons John Hadley (inventor) Template:Coord 4500 m<ref name="price" /><ref name="moore" /> 4600 m
Hadley Delta mons Hadley (quod videm) nearby Template:Coord 3900 m<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 3500 m
Haemus montes Haemus (Greek name for the Balkan Mountains) Template:Coord Template:Unknown
Hansteen mons Hansteen (crater) nearby Template:Coord Template:Unknown
Harbinger montes Harbingers of dawn upon the rim of Aristarchus (crater) Template:Coord Template:Unknown
Herodotus mons Herodotus (crater) nearby Template:Coord 1000 m
Huygens mons Christiaan Huygens (astronomer) Template:Coord 3274 m<ref name=":0">The Moon's Highs and Lows</ref> 5300 m<ref name=":0" />
Jura montes Jura Mountains (Europe) Template:Coord Template:Unknown
la Hire mons Philippe de la Hire (astronomer) Template:Coord 1500 m<ref name="price" /><ref name="moore" /> 1500 m
Latreille mons Pierre André Latreille (entomologist) Template:Coord 150 m
Maraldi mons Maraldi (lunar crater) nearby Template:Coord 1300 m 1300 m
Moro mons Antonio Lazzaro Moro (scientist) Template:Coord Template:Unknown
Mouton mons Melba Roy Mouton (mathematician) Template:Coord 7026 m<ref name=":0" /> 6030 m<ref name=":0" />
Penck mons Albrecht Penck (geographer) Template:Coord 4000 m
Pico mons pico (Spanish for "peak") Template:Coord 2400 m<ref name="price" /><ref name="moore" /> 2500 m
Pitón mons El Pitón, Spain (summit of Mount Teide, Tenerife) Template:Coord 2100 m<ref name="price" /><ref name="moore" /> 2300 m
Pyrenaeus montes Pyrenees Mountains (Europe) Template:Coord Template:Unknown
Recti montes wikt:recti (Latin for "straight range") Template:Coord Template:Unknown
Riphaeus montes wikt:Riphaeus (Greek name for the Ural Mountains, Russia) Template:Coord Template:Unknown
Rook montes Lawrence Rook (astronomer) Template:Coord Template:Unknown
Rümker mons Karl Ludwig Christian Rümker (astronomer) Template:Coord 1100 m<ref name="laps07">Template:Cite conference</ref> 500 m
Secchi montes Secchi (lunar crater) nearby Template:Coord Template:Unknown
Spitzbergen montes by resemblance to the Spitsbergen islands (German for "sharp peaks") Template:Coord Template:Unknown
Taurus montes Taurus Mountains (Asia Minor) Template:Coord Template:Unknown
Teneriffe montes Tenerife (island) Template:Coord Template:Unknown
Usov mons Mikhail Usov (geologist) Template:Coord Template:Unknown
VinogradovTemplate:Efn mons Aleksandr Pavlovich Vinogradov (chemist) Template:Coord 1400 m 1400 m
Vitruvius mons Vitruvius (crater) nearby Template:Coord 2300 m 2300 m
Wolff mons Christian Wolff (philosopher) Template:Coord 3800 m<ref name="price" /> 3500 m
  • The central peaks of the crater Copernicus consist of three isolated mountainous rises climbing as high as 1200 m above the crater floor
    The central peaks of the crater Copernicus consist of three isolated mountainous rises climbing as high as 1200 m above the crater floor
  • Crater Gassendi with central peaks
    Crater Gassendi with central peaks

See also

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Notes

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References

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