What is the name of the "highest" point on the Moon?
Selenean summit refers to the "highest" point on the Moon, notionally similar to Mount Everest on the Earth.
At some 10,786 m (35,387 ft) above the lunar mean, it is nearly twenty percent 'taller' than Earth's relative highest point, Everest. The summit is located along the north-eastern rim of Engel'gardt crater. Although methods of measurement differ somewhat (e.g., the Moon lacks a sea level), since its discovery in 2010 by the LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) teams, nowhere else has surpassed this region's height measurements on the lunar surface.
The summit is located on the far side of the Moon relative to Earth.
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Deborah Gabriel
Great question! I have never thought of that question before!
Mike Hibner
A good question from Lilly Nicolson. Lilly could have included Mount Huygens and turned it into a trick question, but she did not. Solenean summit, the correct answer, is substatianlly higher than Mount Hygens and is on the far side of the moon. You go, Lilly!!!