Horizon view
Horizon from Whitaker
84.6700° S, 0.6900° E · cell BAU
- Highest horizon point
- Whitaker: 20.1° above the horizontal, 9.68 km away at azimuth 309°.
- Farthest visible point
- 72.4 km away at azimuth 123°, 5.0° from the horizontal.
- Observer
- Eye 2 m above the ground, which is 2,404 m below the 1,737.4 km reference sphere.
- Sun at the rendered time
- The Sun is 5.4° above the smooth horizon at azimuth 41° but behind terrain: the skyline there rises to 7.4°. At 2026-10-22 10:46:36 UTC, when this page was served.
- Resolution
- Terrain resolution: about 160 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 309°.
The Sun is 5.4° above the smooth horizon at azimuth 41° but behind terrain: the skyline there rises to 7.4°. At 2026-10-22 10:46:36 UTC.
Terrain resolution: about 160 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
- 309° Whitaker, 9.68 km away, 20.1° high, 3,566 m above the ground here
- 99° Malapert, 49.6 km away, 7.0° high, 6,852 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.