Mons Argaeus is a mountainous massif on the Moon

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 that extends for a length of 50 km towards the southeast. It is located at selenographic coordinates 19.0°N, 29.0°E, in the mountainous southeastern border of the Mare Serenitatis

Mare Serenitatis

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. Apollo 17

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 landed to the east of Mons Argaeus in the Taurus–Littrow Valley (next to Mons Vitruvius

Mons Vitruvius

Mons Vitruvius is a mountain on the Moon that is located in the Montes Taurus region just to the north of Mare Tranquillitatis and to the southeast of Mare Serenitatis. This massif is located at selenographic coordinates of 19.4° N, 30.8° E, and it has a diameter across the base of 15 km. It...

 and to the south of the crater Littrow

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).

This rise was given the Latin

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 name for Mount Argaeus

Mount Erciyes

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, a peak in Turkey

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 long renamed Erciyes Dağı

Mount Erciyes

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. The name for this lunar feature was officially adopted by the IAU

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in 1935.