Montes Teneriffe

48.0°N, 13.0°W

Montes Teneriffe are a loose group of mountain peaks, which, with a height of about 2.4 km are all about the same height, and so do not differ from the height of Mons Pico. The mountains Montes Teneriffe, Montes Recti, and the individual mountains Mons Piton and Mons Pico are probably the towering remnants of the otherwise submerged inner wall of the Imbrium Basin.

Montes Recti

48.0°N, 20.0°W

A linear range of mountains, running directly east-west for about 90 km, and with a width of about 20 km. The highest peaks reach a height of 1.8 km above the level of the lava of Mare Imbrium. They are part of the inner wall of the Imbrium Basin.

Mons Pico 46.0°N, 9.0°W

Mons Pico is an isolated mountain with an area at its base of 15 × 25 km and a height of 2.4 km. It lies exactly on the edge of ‘Ancient Newton’. The mountain was named by Johann Hieronyus Schröter (1745—1816) after Pico del Teide on Teneriffe, a peak that he compared to the mountain on the Moon.

When Mons Pico is observed under grazing illumination, the mountain casts a spectacular, pitch-black shadow, as much as 90 km long, on the surrounding lava surface, and gives the appearance of an extremely steep, towering peak. Because the Moon has no atmosphere whatsoever, sunlight is not scattered and this intensifies the shadow.