Mont Blanc is a mountain in the
Montes Alpes
Montes Alpes is a mountain range in the northern part of the Moon's near side. It was named after the Alps in Europe; the name was confirmed by the International Astronomical Union in 1935. It lies between the selenographic coordinates latitudes ...
range on the
Moon
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. It is located on the western edge of the range, near the shore of
Mare Imbrium
Mare Imbrium (Latin ''imbrium'', the "Sea of Showers" or "Sea of Rains") is a vast lunar mare, lava plain within the Imbrium Basin on the Moon and is one of the larger craters in the Solar System. The Imbrium Basin formed from the collision ...
, at . Its width is about 25 kilometers; the height is 3.7–3.8 km above adjacent plains of Mare Imbrium and 1.12 km above lunar level of zero elevation (a sphere with radius 1737.4 km).
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The name of ]Mont Blanc
Mont Blanc (, ) is a mountain in the Alps, rising above sea level, located right at the Franco-Italian border. It is the highest mountain in Europe outside the Caucasus Mountains, the second-most prominent mountain in Europe (after Mount E ...
, the highest mountain of terrestrial Alps
The Alps () are some of the highest and most extensive mountain ranges in Europe, stretching approximately across eight Alpine countries (from west to east): Monaco, France, Switzerland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Germany, Austria and Slovenia.
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, was proposed for this mountain by Johann Hieronymus Schröter
Johann Hieronymus Schröter (30 August 1745, Erfurt – 29 August 1816, Lilienthal) was a German astronomer.
Life
Schröter was born in Erfurt, and studied law at Göttingen University from 1762 until 1767, after which he started a ten- ...
.[ It was approved by ]International Astronomical Union
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in 1935.[ It is the only summit of Montes Alpes with proper name and the only extraterrestrial mountain, whose international name contains French word "Mont" instead of Latin "]Mons
Mons commonly refers to:
* Mons, Belgium, a city in Belgium
* Mons pubis (mons Venus or mons veneris), in mammalian anatomy, the adipose tissue lying above the pubic bone
* Mons (planetary nomenclature), a sizable extraterrestrial mountain
* Batt ...
".[According t]
Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature
as for 2015
Despite statements that lunar Mont Blanc, like terrestrial one, is a highest mountain of its Alps,[ measurements of ]Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
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show that it is only third, being 600 meters lower than the highest one and about 100 m lower than the second.[
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References
Links
Map of the region
Mont Blanc
in The-Moon Wiki
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