Horizon view
Horizon from Mons Kocher
85.4600° S, 118.0600° W · cell AVK
- Highest horizon point
- Mons Kocher: 6.5° above the horizontal, 6.08 km away at azimuth 56°.
- Farthest visible point
- 9.36 km away at azimuth 27°, 4.7° from the horizontal.
- Observer
- Eye 2 m above the ground, which is 2,459 m above the 1,737.4 km reference sphere.
- Sun at the rendered time
- The Sun is below the horizon: 2.9° under it at azimuth 158°. At 2026-10-22 12:43:16 UTC, when this page was served.
- Resolution
- Terrain resolution: about 160 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 3x (horizontal 4 px per degree). Eye 2 m above the ground.Scroll sideways to turn; the middle faces 56°.
The Sun is below the horizon: 2.9° under it at azimuth 158°. At 2026-10-22 12:43:16 UTC.
Terrain resolution: about 160 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
- 56° Mons Kocher, 6.08 km away, 6.5° high, 702 m above the ground here
- 14° Mons Kocher, 8.88 km away, 5.7° high, 906 m above the ground here
- 300° Mons Kocher, 5.68 km away, 5.1° high, 523 m above the ground here
- 163° Mons Kocher, 4.56 km away, 4.2° high, 346 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.