1967b, 1968]. The Surveyor-7 analyses were made in a terra region near the crater Tycho, which is thought to be covered with ejecta from that crater [Patterson et al., 1969]. The two adjacent samples ...

Without doubt, the most impressive ray crater that we can see from Earth is Tycho. The crater itself is about 50 miles across but its rays spread for almost the diameter of the Moon. See if you ...

Understanding the Moon and the processes that shaped it helps us to better understand other objects in our solar system.

Older craters are rounded, younger ones not so much. Much like the previously covered young crater Tycho and its central peak, King's mountains are thought to have been formed as material got ...

While you are watching, look for some of the Moon's features visible to the naked eye. The Tycho crater is easy to spot in the southeast. This impact crater, named after the Danish astronomer ...

For example, it can take months for a scientist to map the thousands of square miles that make up the Moon’s Tycho Crater. The project aims to recruit and train citizen scientists to trace the ...

owing to its rocky walls and bright ejected material seen radiating out of the crater. In fact, all craters with bright ejecta (Tycho, Aristarchus, etc.) are part of the Copernican period, the lunar ...