Horizon view
Horizon from Mons Malapert
85.9800° S, 1.6700° W · cell AZS
- Highest horizon point
- Mons Malapert: 5.5° above the horizontal, 0.16 km away at azimuth 251°.
- Farthest visible point
- 162 km away at azimuth 6°, -3.4° from the horizontal.
- Observer
- Eye 2 m above the ground, which is 4,919 m above the 1,737.4 km reference sphere.
- Sun at the rendered time
- The Sun is above the local horizon: 4.3° high at azimuth 43°, 7.1° above the skyline there. At 2026-10-22 10:47:36 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 251°.
The Sun is above the local horizon: 4.3° high at azimuth 43°, 7.1° above the skyline there. At 2026-10-22 10:47:36 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
- 251° Mons Malapert, 0.16 km away, 5.5° high, 17 m above the ground here
- 94° Mons Malapert, 7.76 km away, 1.7° high, 247 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.