Central mountain
The central mountain is a typical topographical feature of larger impact craters . As the name suggests, the central mountain is located roughly in the middle of such a crater. It is created by the springback of the crater floor in the moments after the impact . Depending on the nature of the subsoil, the energy of the impact and the gravitation of the celestial body concerned, the central elevation is formed in craters with different diameters; on the moon of about 20 km in diameter. The 93 km diameter lunar crater Copernicus (see below) has several central mountains that rise up to a height of 1200 m above the crater floor.
Moon crater Tycho with its central mountain
The central mountain of the Tycho towers above the crater floor by about 2000 m.
Copernicus lunar crater with a group of central mountains
The central mountain in the meteorite crater of the Steinheim basin
