Horizon view
Horizon from Descartes
11.7428° S, 15.6667° E · cell 25LEF
- Highest horizon point
- Descartes: 4.4° above the horizontal, 0.47 km away at azimuth 190°.
- Farthest visible point
- 64.0 km away at azimuth 89°, 1.4° from the horizontal.
- Observer
- Eye 2 m above the ground, which is 240 m above the 1,737.4 km reference sphere.
- Sun at the rendered time
- The Sun is above the local horizon: 66.1° high at azimuth 66°, 65.2° above the skyline there. At 2026-10-22 18:24:18 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 190°.
The Sun is above the local horizon: 66.1° high at azimuth 66°, 65.2° above the skyline there. At 2026-10-22 18:24:18 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
- 190° Descartes, 0.47 km away, 4.4° high, 38 m above the ground here
- 217° Descartes, 22.7 km away, 4.3° high, 1,861 m above the ground here
- 279° Descartes, 23.4 km away, 3.4° high, 1,571 m above the ground here
- 255° Descartes, 11.1 km away, 3.3° high, 682 m above the ground here
- 314° Descartes, 8.29 km away, 2.4° high, 362 m above the ground here
- 4° Descartes, 18.5 km away, 1.6° high, 602 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.