presents

TYCHO
Directory - Section 64


BRIEF DESCRIPTION
A crater field south of Mare Nubium is dominated by the crater Tycho, which is one of the most prominent craters on the Moon and the center of the most extensive system of bright rays. Surveyor 7 soft-landed close to the northern rim of Tycho. Refer to your Antonin Rukl lunar atlas chart, page 155.

wikispaces.com/R%C3%BCkl+64
Rukl zone map page.

EARTH-BASED TELESCOPIC IMAGES:
Image - Deslandres (Fattinnanzi) Newton 200 f6, Phillips vesta-pro webcam
Image - Tycho (Sussenbach)
Image - Tycho (Lunascan, 960807 event)
Image - Tycho (Ferreira)
Image - Tycho, Clavius & South Pole: MPS (Legault) Rotated 90 ccw
Image - Tycho (Massey)
Image - Tycho, sunrise on peaks (Massey)
Image - Tycho & Pitatus & Section 64 & 54 (Cazard)
Image - Tycho (Genovese)
Image - Tycho & Ray System (Genovese)

http://www.google.com/search?q=tycho,lro&hl=en&newwindow=1&tbo=u&tbm=isch&source=univ&sa=X&ei=7FAdUb_qEoXq0QGGl4GwCQ&ved=0CDwQsAQ&biw=1024&bih=643 (Googled images)

CRATERS IN THIS SECTION:
Ball, 41 km
Brown, 34 km
Deslandres, 234 km
Gauricus, 79 km
Heinsius, 64 km
Hell, 33 km
Montanari, 77 km
Pictet, 62 km
Pitatus, 97 km
Sasserides, 90 km
Street, 58 km
Tycho, 85 km
Wilhelm, 107 km
Wurzelbauer, 88 km

LUNAR ORBITER IMAGES:
Lunar Orbiter Database
Lunar Orbiter Images (Tycho, LPI)
Image - Fantastic LO5 close-up of full crater.
Image - LO-5 128h2, rugged terrain, ejecta deposit N. of Tycho

APOLLO IMAGES:
Landing Sites Map
Image - AS16-4658(P) - Apollo 16 imaged Ranger 9 impact crater

CLEMENTINE IMAGES:
Image - Awesome false-color, close-up of Tycho
Blow-up of Tycho's peak

LRO Images:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Photos_of_the_Moon_by_Lunar_Reconnaissance_Orbiter
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/LRO_WAC_Tycho_crater_mosaic.jpg (LRO WAC Composite)

YOU TUBE VIDEOS:
youtube.com/watch?v=LNRBjW5jkYw  (NASA's Planetary CSI: Crater Science Investigations: Linné Crater)

LUNAR FLYOVERS:
lroc.sese.asu.edu/DOWNLOADS/TychoCentralPeak.mov (LROC Explores Tycho's Central Peak)
lroc.sese.asu.edu/DOWNLOADS/LROCRevisitsTheInteriorofTychoCrater.mov (LROC Revisits the Interior of Tycho Crater)

Research Updates:

Vitello - A Strange Crater on the Moon (Sydney Observatory)
lroc.sese.asu.edu/news/index.php?/archives/591-River-of-Rock.html (LRO, River of Rock)
lroc.asu.edu/news/index.php?/archives/601-Giant-Flow-of-Impact-Melt.html (LRO, Giant Flow of Impact Melt)
nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/multimedia/lroimages/lroc-20101208-tycho.html (LRO, Ejecta In Tycho Crater)
nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/multimedia/tycho-peak-gal.html (LRO)
nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/multimedia/lroimages/lroc-20100114-tycho.html (LRO, The Floor of Tycho)
nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/multimedia/lroimages/lola-20100326-tycho.html (LRO, Tycho Crater, LOLA's Topography Data)
Tycho Event of 5/9/03 - Griffith Observatory
Tycho - Lunar Views (Lunascan)
Tycho Observation, 20 Sept 2000, (Ferreira)
Tycho From LO5 (NASA/Lunascan)
Tycho Through The Month (Dinsmore Alter)
Tycho event  8/21/92 (ALPO, Darling)
Session #18, 8/7/96 Tycho event (Lunascan)
Session #20, 8/22/96 & Frame Grab (Lunascan)
alienanomalies.activeboard.com/t49120940/shadow-and-dust-cloud-anomalies-in-tycho-crater/    (Tycho Crater)

 

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