The book was rather like Galileo's mountains on the moon, widely known to be there but not seen.

That section of the Brooks Range is like the mountains on the moon.

"Don't they say that the mountains on the moon were made by asteroids falling on it?"

Some mountains on the moon are called the Montes Archimedes.

"When," asked Soames harshly, "were the mountains on the moon made?

I could see craters and mountains on the moon, just with that small telescope that had been in our attic for years!

"Mountains On The Moon"

For the Taurus Mountains on the moon, see Montes Taurus.

At the concentration camp, Peter dreamed of faraway places and drew a picture of what Earth would look like when viewed from mountains on the moon.

The walls on the south side rise several stories, and in places were cut in half along a diagonal, leaving perilous inclines, like mountains on the moon.

Giuseppe Biancani also corresponded with Grienberger, with whom he discussed his doubts over Galileo's assertion that there were mountains on the moon.

He demonstrated the ability to release nuclear-weapon-class blasts centered around his body, vaporizing an entire mountain on the moon and turning a huge slag heap into a smoldering crater.

And he discovered mountains on the moon, phases of Venus, spots on the sun and satellites of Jupiter within a few weeks, four genuine examples of objective reality.

In a 1611 letter to Christoph Grienberger (after whom the Gruemberger crater is named), Biancani wrote of his certainty that there could not be any mountains on the moon.

The telescope will include seven 18-ton mirrors capable of providing clear images of volcanoes and riverbeds on Mars and mountains on the moon at a rate 40 times faster than the world's current large telescopes.

His observations of the moons of Jupiter, the phases of Venus, the spots on the sun, and mountains on the moon all helped to discredit the Aristotelian philosophy and the Ptolemaic theory of the solar system.