Promontorium Agassiz-Deville AS15-M-1539

Promontorium Deville is a mountainous cape situated on the northeast margin of

Mare Imbrium Mare Imbrium (Latin ''imbrium'', the "Sea of Showers" or "Sea of Rains", "Sea of Tears") 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 fro ...

on the near side of the

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. Its

selenographic coordinates The selenographic coordinate system is used to refer to locations on the surface of Earth's moon. Any position on the lunar surface can be referenced by specifying two numerical values, which are comparable to the latitude and longitude of Earth. ...

are 43.31° N, 1.14° E. It is located north of Promontorium Agassiz, south of

Mont Blanc Mont Blanc (french: Mont Blanc ; it, Monte Bianco , both meaning "white mountain") is the highest mountain in the Alps and Western Europe, rising above sea level. It is the second-most prominent mountain in Europe, after Mount Elbrus, and i ...

, northeast of

Mons Piton Mons Piton is an isolated Moon, lunar mountain that is located in the eastern part of the Mare Imbrium, to the north-northwest of the crater Aristillus (crater), Aristillus. Due east of Mons Piton is the flooded crater Cassini (lunar crater), C ...

, and northwest of Cassini crater. Promontorium Deville is named after

Charles Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville Charles Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville (26 February 1814 – 10 October 1876) was a geologist and meteorologist. Born in St. Thomas, he was the brother of chemist Henri Etienne Sainte-Claire Deville. Having attended at the École des Mines i ...

, a French meteorologist and geologist. The name of the feature was approved by the IAU in 1935.Promontorium Deville
Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature, International Astronomical Union (IAU) Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN)

External links

LAC-25
a map showing Promontorium Deville and surrounding area

References

Mountains on the Moon {{Mountains on the Moon