Montes Riphaeus

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Montes Riphaeus
LRO image
Highest point
ListingLunar mountains
Coordinates7°42′S 28°06′W / 7.7°S 28.1°W / -7.7; -28.1
Geography
Locationthe Moon

Montes Riphaeus (Latin for "Riphaeus Mountains") is an irregular range of lunar mountains that lie along the west-northwestern edge of Mare Cognitum, on the southeastern edge of Oceanus Procellarum. The range trends generally from north-northeast to south-southwest. It includes a number of slender ridge lines with valleys flooded by intruding flows of lava.[1]

Selenochromatic Image(Si) of the massif area(to the left)

This range is located at selenographic

coordinates 7.7° S, 28.1° W. It has a diameter of 189 km (117 mi), although it is typically only about 30–50 km (19–31 mi) wide. The nearest feature of note is Euclides, a small but prominent crater to the west. About 100 km (62 mi) to the north is the crater Lansberg
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The range is named after the Riphean Mountains in the geography of classical antiquity. Johannes Hevelius was the first astronomer to apply the Riphean label to a feature of the lunar landscape, but Johann Heinrich von Mädler is responsible for the current designation of the Montes Riphaeus.[2]

See also

  • List of Lunar mountains

References

  1. ISBN 978-0-387-87609-2
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  2. ISBN 0521622484
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