Montes Jura

Montes Jura - Latin for Jura mountains - is an arcuate mountain range on sinus iridium, in the northwest of the near side of the Moon. The name comes from the German cartographer Ernst Debes (1840-1923) after the Jura mountains in western Switzerland and Eastern France, and was officially defined by the International Astronomical Union in 1961.

The mountain range is located at the middle selenographic coordinates 47.1 ° North and 34.0 ° West, is about 422 km long and forms to the southeast, the semi-circular border of Sinus Iridium, a bay of the Mare Imbrium. On the other hand, is between him and the Mare Frigoris a crater highlands. The mountain range is probably the remnant of a sunken half in Mare Imbrium crater wall. Cape Heraclides in the southwest and Cape Laplace located at its ends in the northeast. Near its center is the 38 km in diameter crater Bianchini.