List of mountains on the Moon

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

+ Peaks on the Moon Name Type Namesake Peak coordinates Peak elevation (m) Topographic prominence (m) Agnes mons Agnes (Greek feminine name, meaning 'lamb') 650 m 30 m Agricola montes Georgius Agricola (metallurgist) Alpes montes Alps (Europe) Ampère mons André-Marie Ampère (physicist) 3300 m 3000 m André mons André (French masculine name) Apenninus montes Apennine Mountains (Italy) Archimedes montes Archimedes (crater) nearby Ardeshir mons Ardeshir (also 'Ardashir'; Persian King, Persian male name) Argaeus mons Mount Erciyes (Asia Minor) Blanc mons Mont Blanc (the Alps) 3800 m 3600 m Bradley mons James Bradley (astronomer) 4300 mPatrick Moore lists the height of Mons Bradley as ; Fred Price as 4200 m Carpatus montes Carpathian Mountains (Europe) Caucasus montes Caucasus Mountains (Europe) Cordillera montes cordillera (Spanish for "mountain chain") Delisle mons Delisle (crater) nearby Dieter mons Dieter (German masculine name) Dilip mons Dilip (Indian masculine name) 2000 m Esam mons Esam (Arabic masculine name) 6622 m61A2S1(50), Grace. Lunar Topophotomap Series. Publisher: Defense Mapping Agency, Topographic Center. Scale: 1:50,000. Projection: Transverse Mercator. 400 m Ganau mons Ganau (African masculine name) Gruithuisen Delta mons Gruithuisen (crater) nearby Gruithuisen Gamma mons Gruithuisen (crater) nearby 1500 mMons Gruithuisen Gamma, Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature, International Astronomical Union (IAU) Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN)LROC Quickmap, DEM contours layer Hadley mons John Hadley (inventor) 4500 m 4600 m Hadley Delta mons Hadley (quod videm) nearby 3900 m 3500 m Haemus montes Haemus (Greek name for the Balkan Mountains) Hansteen mons Hansteen (crater) nearby Harbinger montes Harbingers of dawn upon the rim of Aristarchus (crater) Herodotus mons Herodotus (crater) nearby 1000 m Huygens mons Christiaan Huygens (astronomer) 3274 mThe Moon's Highs and Lows 5300 m Jura montes Jura Mountains (Europe) Kocher mons Emil Theodor Kocher (physician) 4000 m la Hire mons Philippe de la Hire (astronomer) 1500 m 1500 m Latreille mons Pierre André Latreille (entomologist) 150 m Maraldi mons Maraldi (lunar crater) nearby 1300 m 1300 m Moro mons Antonio Lazzaro Moro (scientist) Mouton mons Melba Roy Mouton (mathematician) 7026 m 6030 m Penck mons Albrecht Penck (geographer) 4000 m Pico mons pico (Spanish for "peak") 2400 m 2500 m Pitón mons El Pitón, Spain (summit of Mount Teide, Tenerife) 2100 m 2300 m Pyrenaeus montes Pyrenees Mountains (Europe) Recti montes wikt:recti (Latin for "straight range") Riphaeus montes wikt:Riphaeus (Greek name for the Ural Mountains, Russia) Rook montes Lawrence Rook (astronomer) Rümker mons Karl Ludwig Christian Rümker (astronomer) 1100 m 500 m Secchi montes Secchi (lunar crater) nearby Spitzbergen montes by resemblance to the Spitsbergen islands (German for "sharp peaks") Taurus montes Taurus Mountains (Asia Minor) Teneriffe montes Tenerife (island) Usov mons Mikhail Usov (geologist) Vinogradov mons Aleksandr Pavlovich Vinogradov (chemist) 1400 m 1400 m Vitruvius mons Vitruvius (crater) nearby 2300 m 2300 m Wolff mons Christian Wolff (philosopher) 3800 m 3500 m

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