Mons Huygens

The Mons Huygens is the highest mountain on Earth's Moon. Its highest peak is about 5.5 km above the level of the Mare Imbrium, at the edge südsüdöstlichem he rises. It lies on the edge of the Montes Apenninus, east of the small crater Huxley. Although it is the highest mountain on the moon, it is not the highest point on the lunar surface. As part of a mountain ring of Mons Huygens mission is a Impaktberg and not, like most mountains of the earth, caused by tectonics or volcanism.

In 1961 he was named after the Dutch astronomer, mathematician and physicist Christiaan Huygens.