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Fantastic images of the Tycho crater from LRO
Sunday, 03 July 2011 16:47
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NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has taken som extra-ordinary images of the familiar Tycho crater on the Moon. This image is a mosaic, but this zoom serie reveals a stunning surprise on the top of the central mountain June 10, 2011, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft pointed the LRO Camera NACs to capture a dramatic sunrise view of Tycho crater. A very popular target with amateur astronomers, Tycho is located at 43.37°S, 348.68°E, and is about 82 km in diameter. The summit of the central peak is 2km above the crater floor. The distance from Tycho's floor to its rim is about 4,7 km.
This LRO image mosaic shows Tycho crater under lighting conditions similar to those when the above "oblique" image was taken. North is up in this image, which is about 81 miles wide (130 km wide. Credit: NASA Goddard/Arizona State University
Tycho crater's central peak complex, shown here, is about 15km wide, left to right (southeast to northwest in this view). (Credit: NASA Goddard/Arizona State University)
This image shows an oblique (angled) view of the summit area of Tycho crater's central peak. The boulder in the background is allmost 120 m wide. The image itself is about 1km wide. (Credit: NASA Goddard/Arizona State University) READ MORE about the Tycho crater |
