Tycho Crater in High Resolution (IMAGE)

National Radio Astronomy Observatory

Tycho Crater in High Resolution

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Partially processed view of the Tycho Crater at a resolution of nearly five meters by five meters and containing approximately 1.4 billion pixels, taken during a radar project by Green Bank Observatory, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, and Raytheon Intelligence & Space using the Green Bank Telescope and antennas in the Very Long Baseline Array. This image covers an area 200km by 175km, which is large enough to contain the 86km-diameter Tycho Crater.

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NRAO/GBO/Raytheon/NSF/AUI

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