Updated 12.1.2014 Crater Tycho is one of the most prominent features on the near side of the Moon - so named after the 16th century Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe. The crater is only around 110 million years old, and its relatively young age has left its features sharp. With its diameter of 86 kilometers (53 mi.) it is easy to spot with the naked eye. When we look at the Moon closeby, like in Google Earth Moon, it is sometimes all too easy to forget the scale of things that we see. It would take you actually an hour to drive through the crater if there was a paved road there, and think how many houses and other buildings you would be passing by on a regular countryside road here on Earth. There would be empty spots here and there, and a concentration of houses at many places. It does seem something like that on Tycho!
TYCHO IN GOOGLE EARTH MOON
Open Google Earth Moon, and see how close you can get to Tycho! First it is all blurry, but then it becomes a lot more sharper, and in the end you get very close to the Tycho surface. And you have a lot of surface to look at! Over 5000 km2, (some 2000 square miles). Well worth your time exploring! Almost no matter where you look, you can find lunar anomalies. It is hard to believe that it would be just random pixels that we see!
LUNAR MISSIONS TO TYCHO
Lunar Surveyor 7 - the seventh and last lunar lander of the American unmanned Surveyor program landed near the north rim of Tycho at 40.9° south latitude, 11.4° west longitude, on January 10, 1968. Contact was lost on February 21, 1968, but before that Surveyor 7 managed to take over 21,000 photographs. All seven Surveyor spacecraft are still there on the Moon.The Surveyor program proved that landings on the Moon surface were possible. And in early 1970, as NASA engineers rejected the Tycho region as being too rugged for an Apollo landing, some scientists still hoped that Apollo 16 or 17 might be diverted to Tycho. But in the end, this never happened.
The Surveyor 7 landing site is not clearly seen in Google Earth Moon as it is outside the sharp area, some 29 km (18 mi.) from the rim of Tycho.
TYCHO ANOMALIES
As you view Tycho on Google Earth Moon and get a real close look at it, the surface seems backed with anomalies. What seems to be thousands of square shaped buildings in alignment with each other - as this video by user bluebeard2011 so well explains: YouTube:Real reason Nasa never went back to Moon(26m53s) - square and rectangular buildings built in north-south-east-west direction, and infrastructure with streets, buildings and external things that look like farms. Wonder what NASA pictures - if they were all released - would show us?
YouTube user Streepcap1 did discover something interesting in an original NASA photo: what looks like an alien base built into the side of the mountain as Scott Waring points out.
There is another interesting YouTube video, Is this a Tycho Crater Spacecraft?(57s) by Streetcap1 that shows what really seems like some sort of spacecraft. Don't know the coordinates, but that is something to look into for instance. And here are also some interesting coordinates: 42.39 S -12.52 W
UFO Digest 's Kevin Smith wrote an excellent article on Tycho in 2012 with the title The Tycho Facility which is certainly worth reading.
There is another interesting YouTube video, Is this a Tycho Crater Spacecraft?(57s) by Streetcap1 that shows what really seems like some sort of spacecraft. Don't know the coordinates, but that is something to look into for instance. And here are also some interesting coordinates: 42.39 S -12.52 W
UFO Digest 's Kevin Smith wrote an excellent article on Tycho in 2012 with the title The Tycho Facility which is certainly worth reading.
PHOTOS AND VIDEOS OF TYCHO
These days anyone with a good set of telescope and camera can take good enough pictures and video of Tycho. The central peak (see picture below) is close to 2 kilometers (1.24 mi.) high and some 15km (9.3 mi.) wide, and even there are things to be seen - but more so in the surrounding area. It's a fascinating study!
NASA's own
The photo of Tycho at http://wms.lroc.asu.edu/lroc_browse/view/M181286769 from January 2012 is a good study, especially with good photo software and together with Google Earth/Moon. LROC NAC view looking from west to east of Tycho crater - 4700 meters deep and with the central peak 2000 meters high. And here is the LROC 'home page' on Tycho. Comparing the LROC picture with the Google Moon, the GME North should point toapproximately 2100 hours. Zooming then on GME to the 'bay area' (around 43°24'S and 11°38'W), you can see lots of rectangular designs that look like buildings. What about the LROC photo? There you need the software to see beyond the 'boulders'!
Streetcap1: Is This a Tycho Crater Spacecraft? -
LINKS
- ATS - BeforeIt'sNews:AlienBaseDiscoveredInTychoCrater - NASA:LRO Camera - Wired: Surveyor Program Map - Wiki - YouTube:Real reason Nasa never went back to Moon(26m53s)
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