Mons Pico
Location: ·
Piton's neighbor south of Plato — another surviving summit of the Imbrium basin's buried ring.
Type
Mountain
Diameter
24 km
Position
45.8°N 8.9°W
Name approved
1935
Pico rises 2.4 km above the mare from a base of 15 by 25 km, standing alone on the plain south of Plato. It is a surviving fragment of the Imbrium basin's inner ring; Mons Piton, Montes Recti and Montes Teneriffe are the others, and the rest of that ring is buried.
The exposed peaks therefore set a floor on how deep the basalt is. Where no peak breaks through, the fill must be thicker than the ring stood high - a constraint on Imbrium's fill that needs no gravity model.
Sunrise
Sunset
Sunrise and sunset on Mons Pico
| 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.
Further info
Official record from the IAU Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature: Mons Pico
Wikipedia: Mons Pico