Mons Penck
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| Mons Penck | |
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 Mons Penck lies near the right edge of this image, just below center. Also visible are the Kant (lower center) and Zöllner (upper left) craters. NASA photo. |
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| Elevation | 4 km |
| Location | the Moon |
| Coordinates | |
| Listing | Lunar mountains |
| Translation | Albrecht Penck (Latin) |
Mons Penck is a mountain promontory on the near side of the Moon. It lies just to the northeast of the Kant crater, to the north of Ibn-Rushd crater and the Rupes Altai scarp. Southeast of Mons Penck are the prominent double crater consisting of Theophilus and Cyrillus.
The selenographic coordinates of this peak are 10.0° S, 21.6° E. It occupies a diameter of about 30 km around the base and climbs to an altitude of 4 km (13,000 feet). It was named for Albrecht Penck (1858-1945), a German geographer and geologist.
[edit] External links
- LTO-78C1 Kant — L&PI topographic orthophotomap map.
