Mons Huygens
Mons Huygens is the tallest mountain in the Moon's Montes Apenninus range. Adjacent to the west is Mons Ampère. The Montes Apenninus were formed by the impact that created Mare Imbrium. Mons Huygens rises 5,300 m (17,380 ft) from its Mare Imbrium base, per altimetry data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.[1] The mountain was named after the Dutch astronomer, mathematician and physician Christiaan Huygens.[2] He is known for discovering Saturn's largest moon or Titan.
Mons Huygens has often been mistakenly cited as the Moon's tallest mountain and compared with Mount Everest, giving the incorrect impression that the Moon's tallest mountain is only a little more than half the height of Earth's tallest above sea level.[3]
Surroundings
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See also
- List of tallest mountains in the Solar System
- Astrogeology
References
External links
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- Mons Huygens at the Moon Wiki
- Annotated map (source)
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- Theoremata de Quadratura Hyperboles, Ellipsis et Circuli (1651)
- De Circuli Magnitudine Inventa (1654)
- De Ratiociniis in Ludo Aleae (1657)
- Systema Saturnium (1659)
- Horologium Oscillatorium (1673)
- Traité de la Lumiére (1692)
- Cosmotheoros (1698)
- Huygens' law of the pendulum
- Huygens' lemniscate
- Huygens-Fresnel principle
- Huygens' tritone
- Huygens–Steiner theorem
- 2801 Huygens
- Cassini–Huygens
- Huygens probe
- Mons Huygens
- MS Christiaan Huygens
- Huygens (crater)
- Huygens-Fokker Foundation
- Huygens Gap
- Huygens Ringlet
- Horologium (constellation)
- Prix Descartes-Huygens
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