Horizon view
Horizon from Rima Hansteen
12.0882° S, 52.9922° W · cell 16LJF
- Highest horizon point
- Hansteen: 4.3° above the horizontal, 10.4 km away at azimuth 51°.
- Farthest visible point
- 55.0 km away at azimuth 181°, -0.6° from the horizontal.
- Observer
- Eye 2 m above the ground, which is 1,660 m below the 1,737.4 km reference sphere.
- Sun at the rendered time
- The Sun is 0.6° above the smooth horizon at azimuth 91° but behind terrain: the skyline there rises to 2.3°. At 2026-10-22 19:43:32 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 51°.
The Sun is 0.6° above the smooth horizon at azimuth 91° but behind terrain: the skyline there rises to 2.3°. At 2026-10-22 19:43:32 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
- 51° Hansteen, 10.4 km away, 4.3° high, 814 m above the ground here
- 340° Unnamed, 14.2 km away, 1.0° high, 301 m above the ground here
- 220° Unnamed, 7.58 km away, 0.7° high, 109 m above the ground here
- 160° Hansteen B, 18.0 km away, 0.3° high, 182 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.