Kubrick Mons is a depression with a peak in the middle, shown here in the upper left corner of the inset.
Feature type
Moated mountain
Location
Vulcan Planitia, Charon
Coordinates
3°36′N30°48′E / 3.6°N 30.8°E / 3.6; 30.8[1]
Diameter
40 kilometres (25 mi)
Peak
3–4 km (1.9–2.5 mi)
Discoverer
New Horizons
Eponym
Stanley Kubrick
Kubrick Mons is the name given to the largest of a series of mountain peaks on Pluto's moon Charon that rise out of depressions in the Vulcan Planitia region.[2][3] The feature was first recorded by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) aboard the New Horizons spacecraft during a flyby on 15 July 2015.
^"Kubrick Mons". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. USGS Astrogeology Research Program.
^"Pluto's Big Moon Charon Has a Bizarre Mountain in a Moat". Space.com. 16 July 2015. Retrieved 7 October 2015.
^Desch, S.J.; Neveu, M. "Differentiation and Cryovolcanism in the Pluto-Charon System" (PDF). USRA Houston. School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University. Retrieved 4 October 2016.
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