Horizon view
Horizon from Smoky Mountains
8.6700° S, 15.5086° E · cell 25LEK
- Highest horizon point
- Smoky Mountains: 8.1° above the horizontal, 0.24 km away at azimuth 15°.
- Farthest visible point
- 86.2 km away at azimuth 286°, -0.6° from the horizontal.
- Observer
- Eye 2 m above the ground, which is 352 m above the 1,737.4 km reference sphere.
- Sun at the rendered time
- The Sun is above the local horizon: 63.4° high at azimuth 75°, 58.5° above the skyline there. At 2026-10-22 10:51:42 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 3x (horizontal 4 px per degree). Eye 2 m above the ground.Scroll sideways to turn; the middle faces 15°.
The Sun is above the local horizon: 63.4° high at azimuth 75°, 58.5° above the skyline there. At 2026-10-22 10:51:42 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
- 15° Smoky Mountains, 0.24 km away, 8.1° high, 36 m above the ground here
- 228° Unnamed, 66.6 km away, 0.8° high, 2,236 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.