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[Credit: NASA / GSFC / Arizona State Univ. / Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter]

1 posted on 01/04/2013 6:23:52 PM PST by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv

No one around to see it back then, but what a show that must have been when Tycho was formed. Would scare the beejus out of us today............


6 posted on 01/04/2013 6:45:47 PM PST by doorgunner69
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To: SunkenCiv
Sunrise near Tycho crater? Uh oh... does anyone else hear that ringing noise?


7 posted on 01/04/2013 7:46:31 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: SunkenCiv
And here's a detail, a full-resolution crop from the same LROC NAC observation, showing the 100 yard boulder perched on the very top of the central peak of Tycho:


8 posted on 01/04/2013 8:31:37 PM PST by Prospero
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To: SunkenCiv
Top down view:


15 posted on 01/04/2013 9:46:03 PM PST by Slyfox (The key to Marxism is medicine - V. Lenin)
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