Horizon view
Horizon from Palmetto
8.9218° S, 15.4972° E · cell 25LEK
- Highest horizon point
- Smoky Mountains: 4.6° above the horizontal, 4.74 km away at azimuth 21°.
- Farthest visible point
- 64.2 km away at azimuth 66°, 1.4° from the horizontal.
- Observer
- Eye 2 m above the ground, which is 4 m above the 1,737.4 km reference sphere.
- Sun at the rendered time
- The Sun is above the local horizon: 63.5° high at azimuth 75°, 62.0° above the skyline there. At 2026-10-22 11:06:16 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 21°.
The Sun is above the local horizon: 63.5° high at azimuth 75°, 62.0° above the skyline there. At 2026-10-22 11:06:16 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
- 21° Smoky Mountains, 4.74 km away, 4.6° high, 391 m above the ground here
- 167° Stone Mountain, 7.34 km away, 4.0° high, 535 m above the ground here
- 187° Unnamed, 13.5 km away, 2.0° high, 517 m above the ground here
- 300° Smoky Mountains, 0.71 km away, 1.9° high, 25 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.