Geologists have now unearthed evidence of a 3.5 billion-year-old crater found in a layer of Australian rock. Shatter cones, which are features caused by the shockwave of a hypervelocity meteorite ...
NASA's Galileo spacecraft took this image of the Moon on December 7, 1992, showing the bright Tycho crater at the bottom. This image, captured by Lunar Orbiter 2, shows Copernicus crater on the Moon ...
Credit: Graeme Churchard / CC BY 2.0 Researchers have confirmed the Yarrabubba crater in Australia as the oldest asteroid crater on Earth, dating back 2.229 billion years. This oldest asteroid impact ...
Data collected by Orbiter V when it landed on the Moon in 1967 provide information about the history of the crater Tycho. Volcanic eruptions seem to have been involved in the crater's development.
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Jupiter’s Moon Ganymede: This image presents Jupiter's moon Ganymede as seen by the NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in 1996. In 1998, Hubble's Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph took the first ...
These radiate out from the bright spot that is Tycho Crater. "On a clear, clear night, Tycho, which is a little bit below the equator, has beautiful white rays," says Kring. "Those white rays are the ...
These radiate out from the bright spot that is Tycho Crater. "On a clear, clear night, Tycho, which is a little bit below the equator, has beautiful white rays," says Kring. "Those white rays are ...
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 ...
And yet, there was a time when there were no telescopes when astronomical observations were still being done… Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe is best known for measuring and fixing the positions ...