Montes Carpatus

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Montes Carpatus is a rugged lunar mountain range forming part of the southern rim of the Mare Imbrium basin on the Moon.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Montes Carpatus canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf lunar mountain range
lunar surface feature
adjacentTo Copernicus ejecta blanket
Mare Insularum region to the south
borders Mare Imbrium
cataloguedIn IAU lunar nomenclature
coordinateSystem selenographic coordinates
extendsFrom west of crater T. Mayer
extendsTo region north of crater Copernicus
formedAs rim uplift of Imbrium impact basin
formsPartOf southern rim of Mare Imbrium
geologicalContext Imbrium impact basin rim
governingBodyForName International Astronomical Union
hasAlbedo higher than adjacent mare basalts
hasFeature mountain peaks
ridges
valleys
hasGeologicalAge Imbrian
linked to: Imbrian period
hasLength about 361 km
hasMaximumElevation about 2400 m above Mare Imbrium floor
hasNearbyCrater Copernicus
Euler
Gay-Lussac
linked to: Gay-Lussac B

T. Mayer
hasNotableSection eastern segment near Copernicus with heavily fractured terrain
imagedBy Apollo missions
linked to: Apollo program

Lunar Orbiter missions
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
isPartOf lunar Imbrium rim mountain systems
liesEastOf Sinus Aestuum
liesNorthOf crater Copernicus
linked to: Copernicus crater
liesSouthOf Mare Imbrium
liesWestOf crater T. Mayer
liesWithin lunar highlands bordering Mare Imbrium
locatedIn Imbrium basin
near side of the Moon
locatedOn Moon
namedAfter Carpathian Mountains on Earth
nameLanguage Latin
nameMeaning Carpathian Mountains
observedBy Earth-based telescopes
separates Mare Imbrium from southern highland terrain
linked to: Mare Imbrium
surfaceComposition anorthositic highland material
terrainType rugged
visibleAt low to moderate telescopic magnification from Earth

How these facts were elicited

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Mare Imbrium boundedBy Montes Carpatus