Mons Pico

Mons Pico
Mons Pico (upper left) and Pico β (lower right). Lunar Orbiter 4 image.
Highest point
Elevation2,450 m
ListingLunar mountains
Coordinates45°42′N 8°54′W / 45.7°N 8.9°W / 45.7; -8.9
Geography
Map
Locationthe Moon
Selenochromatic image(Si) of the Mons Pico area (bottom) with some selenochromatic landmarks
Oblique Apollo 15 image of Pico (left) and Pico β (right). NASA/JSC/Arizona State University.

Mons Pico is a solitary lunar mountain that lies in the northern part of the Mare Imbrium basin, to the south of the dark-floored crater Plato and on the southern rim of a ghost crater.[1] This peak forms part of the surviving inner ring of the Imbrium basin, continuing to the northwest and with the Montes Teneriffe and Montes Recti ranges, and probably to the southeast with the Montes Spitzbergen. This mountain feature is thought to have been named by Johann Hieronymus Schröter for Pico del Teide on Tenerife.[2]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference North 291 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Rukl Atlas 48 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).