Tycho is a 110 million years old lunar crater about 51 miles (82 km) in diameter. Earlier this summer, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft "angled its orbit 65° to the west", allowing its camera to capture this dramatic sunrise view of Tycho (Click image for high-res version).
More about Tycho:
- The summit of the central peak is 1.24 miles (2 km) above the crater floor.
- The distance from Tycho's floor to its rim is about 2.92 miles (4.7 km).
- Tycho crater's central peak complex, shown above, is about 9.3 miles (15 km) wide, left to right (southeast to northwest in this view).