Piccard Mons (Pluto)
Data as of 2026-10-23
What it is
- Type
- Mons, montes
- IAU definition
Mountain
- Diameter
- 257 km, 22 % of the radius of its body
- Centre
- 35.26° S, 176.79° east (planetocentric latitude, east longitude from 0 to 360°, the IAU convention)
- Name adopted
- May 30, 2019
- Origin of the name
Auguste; Swiss-Belgian inventor and physicist known for his pioneering balloon flights into the Earth’s upper atmosphere up to 17 km (1884–1962).
Quoted in English, as the IAU publishes it.
In Galaxy
Opens its body in the application, the camera turned towards Piccard Mons.
Missions to its body
No observation record of this formation is crossed here. These are the missions the Planetary Data System declares for its body; none is claimed to have observed Piccard Mons.
Sources
International Astronomical Union Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature, Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature, read on October 23, 2026. Feature page: https://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/15834
Type definitions: IAU Descriptor Terms, read on October 17, 2026. https://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/DescriptorTerms