Friday, July 1, 2011

Dramatic Sunrise Over Moon’s Tycho Crater Mountains

Dramatic Sunrise Over Moon’s Tycho Crater Mountains

A spacecraft circling the moon snapped this dramatic image of the sun rising on the mountains in the middle of Tycho crater.

The 51-mile-wide depression is all that remains of a catastrophic asteroid impact 108 million years ago. Planetary scientists think the guilty asteroid was a fragment from a larger space rock, another piece of which wiped out the dinosaurs.

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