Check this out

Filed under: Science, Space — Eike @ July 18, 2008 4:25 pm

The Japanese space agency has published an amazing animation made from data from their Kaguya/Selene probe. This is a virtual tour through moons Tycho crater (named after astronomer Tycho Brahe, 1546 – 1601 [Wikipedia]). Phil Plait as badastronomy.com explains a bit about Tychos features (and links to the stunning lunar picture of  the day, a picture of Tychos central mountain).  Note that these are not actual movies/pictures, but are constructed from the data of Selenes instruments.

With that I wish you a happy weekend, I will attend a family festivity over the weeekend and will be offline ’till sunday.

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