Horizon view
Horizon from Apollo 16
8.9734° S, 15.5011° E · cell 25LEK
- Highest horizon point
- Stone Mountain: 5.1° above the horizontal, 5.69 km away at azimuth 164°.
- Farthest visible point
- 69.2 km away at azimuth 323°, 0.6° from the horizontal.
- Observer
- Eye 2 m above the ground, which is 9 m above the 1,737.4 km reference sphere.
- Sun at the rendered time
- The Sun is above the local horizon: 62.0° high at azimuth 285°, 61.7° above the skyline there. At 2026-09-27 05:46:35 UTC, when this page was served.
- Resolution
- Terrain resolution: about 474 m at this point and about 1.9 km at the farthest samples; nearby foreground relief is smoothed at the coarser tiers, and the model does not include boulders or other surface hazards.
Vertical scale exaggerated 5x (horizontal 4 px per degree). Eye 2 m above the ground.Scroll sideways to turn; the middle faces 164°.
The Sun is above the local horizon: 62.0° high at azimuth 285°, 61.7° above the skyline there. At 2026-09-27 05:46:35 UTC.
Terrain resolution: about 474 m at this point and about 1.9 km at the farthest samples; nearby foreground relief is smoothed at the coarser tiers, and the model does not include boulders or other surface hazards. How the horizon is computed
Peaks on the skyline
- 164° Stone Mountain, 5.69 km away, 5.1° high, 520 m above the ground here
- 15° Smoky Mountains, 6.40 km away, 3.5° high, 402 m above the ground here
- 204° Unnamed, 29.4 km away, 1.6° high, 1,093 m above the ground here
- 235° Unnamed, 60.6 km away, 1.4° high, 2,581 m above the ground here
- 333° Unnamed, 60.6 km away, 1.1° high, 2,211 m above the ground here
A ray every 0.5 degrees out to 200 km across the NASA LRO LOLA terrain, the curvature of the Moon included; each peak is named only when an IAU feature's mapped footprint lies over the point that forms it. Smooth terrain between samples, no boulders.