Montes Harbinger

Montes Harbinger

Apollo 15 image
Highest point
Listing Lunar mountains
Coordinates 27°00′N 41°00′W / 27.0°N 41.0°W / 27.0; -41.0 
Geography
Location the Moon
Oblique view facing west, also from Apollo 15

Montes Harbinger is an isolated cluster of lunar mountains at the western edge of the Mare Imbrium basin.[1]

The mountains consist of four primary ridges plus several smaller hills, each forming a small rise surrounded by the lunar mare. The cluster is centered at selenographic coordinates 27.0° N, 41.0° W, within a diameter of 90 km. The formation is so-named because the peaks serve as the harbingers of dawn on the crater Aristarchus,[1] located to the southwest.

The flooded crater Prinz is located to the southwest.

References

  1. 1 2 Rükl, Antonin; Richebé, Martine; Becker, Jean-Marc (1993). Gründ, ed. Atlas de la Lune (in French). Paris. pp. 64–65. ISBN 978-2-700-01554-6. OCLC 301684184. bnf=FRBNF40580052.
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