Mons Hadley
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A 4.5-km Apennine peak — Apollo 15 landed at its foot and drove the first lunar rover there.
Apollo 15 landed in the valley southwest of Mons Hadley in 1971, the first mission with a rover and the first to reach the flank of a lunar mountain. Mons Hadley itself, 4.5 km above the plain, was only photographed; Mons Hadley Delta opposite it was climbed and sampled.
The Genesis Rock came from Spur crater on that flank - a fragment of ferroan anorthosite about 4 billion years old, and the first sample recognised as a piece of the Moon's original crust. It is the central physical evidence for the magma ocean: a crust of plagioclase that floated on a molten Moon.
Sunrise
Sunset
Sunrise and sunset on Mons Hadley
| Event | Time | Lit |
|---|---|---|
| Computing… | ||
- Sunrise / Sunset: at the feature's centre (IAU Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature).
- Lit: the illuminated fraction of the Moon's disc at that moment.
Named after
John Hadley, English instrument maker (1682–1744).
Further info
Official record from the IAU Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature: Mons Hadley
Wikipedia: Mons Hadley