Horizon view
Horizon from Montes Alpes
48.3600° N, 0.5800° W · cell 23UED
- Highest horizon point
- Montes Alpes: 10.7° above the horizontal, 7.58 km away at azimuth 267°.
- Farthest visible point
- 73.0 km away at azimuth 37°, 1.5° from the horizontal.
- Observer
- Eye 2 m above the ground, which is 2,215 m below the 1,737.4 km reference sphere.
- Sun at the rendered time
- The Sun is above the local horizon: 29.0° high at azimuth 132°, 28.0° above the skyline there. At 2026-10-22 12:43:16 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 3x (horizontal 4 px per degree). Eye 2 m above the ground.Scroll sideways to turn; the middle faces 267°.
The Sun is above the local horizon: 29.0° high at azimuth 132°, 28.0° above the skyline there. At 2026-10-22 12:43:16 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
- 267° Montes Alpes, 7.58 km away, 10.7° high, 1,451 m above the ground here
- 153° Montes Alpes, 21.8 km away, 4.5° high, 1,874 m above the ground here
- 226° Unnamed, 36.0 km away, 4.2° high, 3,027 m above the ground here
- 60° Montes Alpes, 25.6 km away, 3.5° high, 1,771 m above the ground here
- 2° Montes Alpes, 32.2 km away, 2.7° high, 1,801 m above the ground here
- 114° Montes Alpes, 10.4 km away, 2.2° high, 435 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.