Horizon view
Horizon from Wessex Cleft
20.3430° N, 30.8915° E · cell 27QDQ
- Highest horizon point
- North Massif: 20.8° above the horizontal, 2.37 km away at azimuth 343°.
- Farthest visible point
- 65.9 km away at azimuth 253°, 0.3° from the horizontal.
- Observer
- Eye 2 m above the ground, which is 2,095 m below the 1,737.4 km reference sphere.
- Sun at the rendered time
- The Sun is above the local horizon: 67.5° high at azimuth 164°, 64.7° above the skyline there. At 2026-10-22 19:24:54 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.
True vertical scale (horizontal 4 px per degree). Eye 2 m above the ground.Scroll sideways to turn; the middle faces 343°.
The Sun is above the local horizon: 67.5° high at azimuth 164°, 64.7° above the skyline there. At 2026-10-22 19:24:54 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
- 343° North Massif, 2.37 km away, 20.8° high, 902 m above the ground here
- 77° Wessex Cleft, 1.18 km away, 16.0° high, 341 m above the ground here
- 228° South Massif, 17.1 km away, 5.8° high, 1,834 m above the ground here
- 157° Mons Vitruvius, 24.9 km away, 3.6° high, 1,759 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.