Montes Jura
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| Montes Jura, photographed by Ole Nielsen. | ||
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| position | 47.49 ° N , 36.11 ° W | |
| diameter | 421 km | |
| Named after | Jura -Gebirge | |
| See also Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature | ||
Montes Jura - Latin for Jura Mountains - is an arched mountain range on the Sinus Iridum , in the north-west of the earth-facing 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 established in 1961 by the International Astronomical Union .
The mountain range is located at the mean selenographic coordinates 47.1 ° North and 34.0 ° West, is about 422 kilometers long and forms the semicircular border of Sinus Iridum, a bay of the Mare Imbrium, towards the southeast . On the other side there is a crater highland between it and the Mare Frigoris . The mountain range is probably the remains of a crater wall half sunk in the Mare Imbrium . At its ends are Cape Heraclides in the southwest and Cape Laplace in the northeast. Near its center is the 38 km diameter Bianchini crater .
See also
Web links
- Montes Jura in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Montes Jura on The-Moon Wiki