Promontorium Heraclides

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Promontorium Heraclides is a raised mountainous cape situated in Mare Imbrium on the near side of the Moon. Its selenographic coordinates are 40.3° N, 33.2° W and it is 50 km in diameter. It marks the western edge of the bay of Sinus Iridum. Promontorium Heraclides is named after Heraclides Ponticus, a Greek philosopher and astronomer.{{gpn|4843}} The Soviet lunar probe Luna 17 landed about 30 km from Promontorium Heraclides on November 17, 1970.{{cite book |last=Brunier |first=Serge |author2=Thierry Legault |title=New Atlas of the Moon |publisher=Firefly Books |year=2006 |page=91 |isbn=978-1-55407-173-9 }} The land form is depicted as the face of a woman looking across Sinus Iridum in a 1679 lunar map by Giovanni Domenico Cassini; this depiction, of disputed origin, is known as the "Moon Maiden".{{cite web|title=Map of the moon, 1679|url=http://www.bl.uk/learning/artimages/maphist/minds/moonextract/moon.html|publisher=The British Library|accessdate=13 May 2015}}