Tuesday 20 December 2016

The Mountains of the Moon

As part of my learning of lunar features, I've been trying to identify some of the high points from the photographs I've taken. The features were named by European astronomers in the last few hundred years, hence them being named after European mountain ranges. There is a problem with measuring the heights because there is no sea level as a base for measurements on the Moon. A particular distance from the centre of the Moon has been used for this.