To the north of this mountain is a valley that served as the landing site for the Apollo 15 expedition.

To the northeast of this same valley is the slightly larger Mons Hadley peak with a height of about 4.6 km.

These features were named after the English mathematician and inventor of the octant John Hadley.

[3] On the Apollo 15 mission in 1971, the astronauts David Scott and James Irwin explored the lower reaches of the north slope of Mons Hadley Delta, and collected many samples which were returned to earth.

A clast of anorthosite within this rock is likely to be a piece of the primordial lunar crust.