#Tycho Crater

[quiltofstars]

The rays of the Tycho crater on the Moon // Michael Owen

Michael Owen calls this "The Rays of Tycho 2 - Electric Boogaloo" 😂

[benthesoldiersjeanshorts]

[geopsych]

Harvest moon. It’s near Jupiter in the sky this morning. The Tycho crater looks like the place where the moon fruit used to be connected to the stem. 

[sitting-on-me-bum]

A close-up of the Tycho Crater, a large impact crater located on the south end of the moon. Captured with the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia, this is one of the highest-resolution images of the lunar surface ever taken from Earth.

(Image credit: Raytheon Technologies.)

[netmassimo]

A new image of Tycho's crater on the Moon is the most detailed yet captured from Earth. A collaboration between Green Bank Observatory (GBO), National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), Raytheon Intelligence & Space (RI&S), and Green Bank Telescope (GBT) produced the image thanks to a new radar technology that greatly improved astronomical applications of radars. Images of the lunar surface are just the beginning because other objects can be examined to create far more detailed images than radars could before. This result can be achieved with low-power radar transmitters.

[eideard]

Coolest photo I've seen, today

Coolest photo I’ve seen, today

Click to enlarge

[thebongomediaempire]

"I'll keep tryin' to get somebody onna squawk box, but I dunno if'n it'll do no good, LT - it's been, what, 53 - aalmost 54 years..?" - Cpl. Clark "Sparky" Daughtry, from tne film

[garbagechocolate]

He has no idea what he's doing

[oldmacnewlife]

Brentwood, CA 4/21/2024

[toocoolfordamnation]

.i just love tycho so much it's my favorite moon crater

[lonestarflight]

The original Moon landing sites

"NASA contracted to have 15 flight-worthy Saturn V rockets produced. Apollo 11 achieved the first landing with the sixth Saturn V, leaving nine for follow-on landings. The following landing sites were chosen for these missions, planned to occur at intervals of approximately four months through July 1972."

Note: I've updated this list with the original tentative planned launch dates.

G-type Mission

Apollo 11: (G) Mare Tranquillitatis, July 1969

H-type missions

Apollo 12: (H1) Ocean of Storms (Surveyor 3 site), November 1969

Apollo 13: (H2) Fra Mauro Highlands, March 1970

Apollo 14: (H3) Littrow Crater, July 1970

Apollo 15: (H4) Censorinus Crater, November 1970

J-type missions, the extended stay missions

Apollo 16: (J1) Descartes Highlands or Tycho Crater (Surveyor 7 site), April 1971

Apollo 17: (J2) Marius Hills or Marius Hills volcanic domes, September 1971

Apollo 18: (J3) Copernicus crater or Schröter's Valley or Gassendi crater, February 1972, later July 1973

Apollo 19: (J4) Hadley Rille, July 1972, later December 1973

Apollo 20: (J5) Tycho Crater or Copernicus Crater or Marius Hills, December 1972, later July 1974

As we all know, plans were changed and missions were cancelled. But it's nice to see what was initially planned.

To compare with the actual landing sites and dates:

Apollo 12: (H1) Ocean of Storms (Surveyor 3 site), November 1969

Apollo 13: (H2) never landed, April 1970

Apollo 14: (H3) Fra Mauro, January-February 1971

Apollo 15: (J1) Hadley–Apennine, July-August 1971

Apollo 16: (J2) Descartes Highlands, April 1972

Apollo 17: (J3) Taurus–Littrow, December 1972

NASA ID: link, link

Information from Astronautix: link

Information from Wikipedia: link

[quiltofstars]

Clavius (middle) and Tycho (top left) craters on the Moon // Georges

Clavius crater is named after the German astronomer and Jesuit priest Christopher Clavius (1538-1612) who wrote an important astronomy textbook in the 16th century and approved the modern-day Gregorian calendar.

Tycho crater is named after the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546-1601) who collected highly accurate observational data for Mars which was later used to prove the heliocentric (Sun-centered) model of the Solar System

[kkdas]

Tycho crater on the Moon. Impact so great you can see the rays of debris thrown out in all directions.

Credit: JHlunarphotography

[just--space]

Space Station Silhouette on the Moon : What's that unusual spot on the Moon? It's the International Space Station. Using precise timing, the Earth-orbiting space platform was photographed in front of a partially lit gibbous Moon last month. The featured composite, taken from Payson, Arizona, USA last month, was intricately composed by combining, in part, many 1/2000-second images from a video of the ISS crossing the Moon. A close inspection of this unusually crisp ISS silhouette will reveal the outlines of numerous solar panels and trusses. The bright crater Tycho is visible on the upper left, as well as comparatively rough, light colored terrain known as highlands, and relatively smooth, dark colored areas known as maria. On-line tools can tell you when the International Space Station will be visible from your area. via NASA

[rrrick]

The Tycho crater

[netmassimo]

Una nuova immagine del cratere Tycho sulla Luna è la più dettagliata catturata finora dalla Terra. Una collaborazione tra Green Bank Observatory (GBO), National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), Raytheon Intelligence & Space (RI&S) e Green Bank Telescope (GBT) ha prodotto l'immagine grazie a una nuova tecnologia radar che ha migliorato notevolmente le applicazioni astronomiche dei radar. Immagini della superficie lunare sono solo l'inizio perché altri oggetti possono essere esaminati per creare immagini molto più dettagliate di quanto i radar potessero fare prima. Questo risultato può essere ottenuto con trasmettitori radar a bassa potenza.