Mons Huygens
19°55′12″N 2°51′36″W / 19.92000°N 2.86000°W / 19.92000; -2.86000Naming English translation Mount Huygens Language of name Latin Geography Location the Moon 
Labeled view from Earth 
Mons Huygens is the Moon's tallest mountain (but not its highest point,[1] which is Selenean Summit). It is about 5,500 m (18,000 ft) high and is located in the Montes Apenninus.[1] Adjacent to the west is Mons Ampère. The Montes Apenninus were formed by the impact that created Mare Imbrium. The mountain was named after the Dutch astronomer, mathematician and physician Christiaan Huygens.[2]
Surroundings
Mons Huygens
See also
- List of tallest mountains in the Solar System
- Astrogeology
References
- ^ a b MP - Mons Huygens
- ^ "Mons Huygens". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. USGS Astrogeology Research Program., accessed August 19, 2017
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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
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