Mons Huygens
19°31′33″N 2°54′14″W / 19.52583°N 2.90389°W / 19.52583; -2.90389Naming English translation Mount Huygens Language of name Latin Geography Location the Moon
Mons Huygens is the tallest mountain in the Moon's Montes Apenninus range. Adjacent to the west is Mons Ampère. The Montes Apenninus were formed by the impact that created Mare Imbrium. Mons Huygens rises 5,300 m (17,380 ft) from its Mare Imbrium base, per altimetry data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.[1] The mountain was named after the Dutch astronomer, mathematician and physician Christiaan Huygens.[2]
Surroundings
See also
- List of tallest mountains in the Solar System
- Astrogeology
References
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Christiaan Huygens
- Theoremata de Quadratura Hyperboles, Ellipsis et Circuli (1651)
- De Circuli Magnitudine Inventa (1654)
- De Ratiociniis in Ludo Aleae (1657)
- Systema Saturnium (1659)
- Horologium Oscillatorium (1673)
- Traité de la Lumiére (1692)
- Cosmotheoros (1698)
- Huygens' law
- Huygens' lemniscate
- Huygens-Fresnel principle
- Huygens' construction
- Huygens' tritone
- Huygens' wavelet
- Huygens' wave theory
- Huygens–Steiner theorem
- 2801 Huygens
- Cassini–Huygens
- Huygens probe
- Mons Huygens
- MS Christiaan Huygens
- Huygens (crater)
- Huygens-Fokker Foundation
- Huygens Gap
- Huygens Ringlet
- Horologium (constellation)
- Prix Descartes-Huygens
- Wikiquote
- Wikisource texts