page_title: Mons La Hire
hierarchical_section_title: Mons La Hire
caption_attribution_description: English: Oblique view of Mons La Hire, Mare Imbrium, facing north, on the moon.
context_page_description: Mons La Hire is a solitary lunar mountain in the western Mare Imbrium. It is located to the northeast of the crater Euler, and to the west-northwest of Lambert.
  The selenographic coordinates of this feature are 27.8° N, 25.5° W, and it has a maximum diameter at the base of 25 km. The mountain base has a shape roughly like an arrow head, with the point oriented toward the west-northwest. The peak has a height of 1.5 km above the surface.
  This feature was named after Philippe de La Hire, a French mathematician and astronomer.
context_section_description: Mons La Hire is a solitary lunar mountain in the western Mare Imbrium. It is located to the northeast of the crater Euler, and to the west-northwest of Lambert.
  The selenographic coordinates of this feature are 27.8° N, 25.5° W, and it has a maximum diameter at the base of 25 km. The mountain base has a shape roughly like an arrow head, with the point oriented toward the west-northwest. The peak has a height of 1.5 km above the surface.
  This feature was named after Philippe de La Hire, a French mathematician and astronomer.
caption: Oblique view from Apollo 17
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