Tycho Crater

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Tycho Crater The Moon UK

This is an image of the impact sight on the moon. Tycho is a really impressive impact sight and something that is easily seen from earth.

Tycho (/ˈtaɪkoʊ/) is a prominent lunar impact crater located in the southern lunar highlands, named after the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546–1601). It is estimated to be 108 million years old.

Tycho is replete with craters of various sizes, many overlapping still older craters. Some of the smaller craters are secondary craters formed from larger chunks of ejecta from Tycho. It is one of the Moon's brightest craters, with a diameter of 85 km (53 mi) and a depth of 4,800 m (15,700 ft).

This image has been taken with a deep space telescope and using a blue lens

Tycho impact crater on the moon...
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Kelly Shenker