Mont Blanc (Moon)
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Lunar Orbiter 4 image
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| Elevation | 3.7–3.8 km |
| Listing | Lunar mountains |
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| Translation | Mont Blanc |
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| Location | the Moon |
Mont Blanc is a mountain in the Montes Alpes range on the Moon. It is located on the western edge of the range, near the shore of Mare Imbrium, at Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.. Its width is about 25 kilometers; the height is 3.7–3.8 km above adjacent plains of Mare Imbrium and 1.12 km above lunar level of zero elevation (a sphere with radius 1737.4 km).[1]
The name of Mont Blanc, the highest mountain of terrestrial Alps, was proposed for this mountain by Johann Hieronymus Schröter.[2] It was approved by International Astronomical Union in 1935.[2][3] It is the only summit of Montes Alpes with proper name and the only extraterrestrial mountain, whose international name contains French word "Mont" instead of Latin "Mons".[4]
Despite statements that lunar Mont Blanc, like terrestrial one, is a highest mountain of its Alps,[5] measurements of Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter show that it is only third, being 600 meters lower than the highest one and about 100 m lower than the second.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Altimetric data of Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, obtained via JMARS software
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (In the linked text — Blanc (Mt.), but in scanned original book — Mont Blanc).
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Accordind to Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature as for 2015
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Links
- Map of the region
- Mont Blanc in The-Moon Wiki
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