Promontorium Heraclides

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. Like many of the craters on the Moon's near side, it was given its name as a crater by Giovanni Riccioli, whose 1651 nomenclature system has become standardized.Michael van Langren's 1645 map calls it "Promontorium Sti. Vincetii", named after Saint Vincent of Saragossa Later Heraclides would be mapped as a promontory.

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".

The Soviet lunar probe Luna 17 landed about 30 km from Promontorium Heraclides on November 17, 1970.

One of the first image including video by JAXA's probe Kaguya were taken and recorded alongside Sinus Iridium, Montes Jura and Mare Imbrium and Promontorium Laplace on October 31, 2007. The spacecraft took the world's first high definition image data of the Moon from an altitude about 100 kilometers away from the Moon on October 31, 2007.

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