Horizon view
Horizon from Herodotus
23.2537° N, 49.8353° W · cell 17QCP
- Highest horizon point
- An unnamed point: 5.5° above the horizontal, 22.7 km away at azimuth 46°.
- Farthest visible point
- 23.7 km away at azimuth 37°, 3.9° from the horizontal.
- Observer
- Eye 2 m above the ground, which is 1,114 m below the 1,737.4 km reference sphere.
- Sun at the rendered time
- The Sun is 3.0° above the smooth horizon at azimuth 93° but behind terrain: the skyline there rises to 3.7°. At 2026-10-22 20:27:01 UTC, when this page was served.
- Resolution
- Terrain resolution: about 1.9 km, the global LOLA terrain tier of 16 pixels per degree; relief smaller than that, near or far, is smoothed, 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 46°.
The Sun is 3.0° above the smooth horizon at azimuth 93° but behind terrain: the skyline there rises to 3.7°. At 2026-10-22 20:27:01 UTC.
Terrain resolution: about 1.9 km, the global LOLA terrain tier of 16 pixels per degree; relief smaller than that, near or far, is smoothed, and the model does not include boulders or other surface hazards. How the horizon is computed
Peaks on the skyline
- 46° Unnamed, 22.7 km away, 5.5° high, 2,338 m above the ground here
- 107° Herodotus, 18.0 km away, 4.4° high, 1,493 m above the ground here
- 359° Herodotus, 16.1 km away, 3.4° high, 1,046 m above the ground here
- 310° Herodotus, 16.1 km away, 3.3° high, 999 m above the ground here
- 227° Herodotus, 18.0 km away, 2.7° high, 933 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.