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Of all the craters on the Moon, Tycho in the southern hemisphere stands out the most. This is because the rays extending out from the crater reach nearly a quarter of the way around the moon in straight lines. The official explanation is that this is ejected material, but close inspection reveals that that can not be the case.
Look just left of the arrow that points to Tycho, extending out from the bottom left hand side are two straight lines that do not point to the center of the crater but a point on the crater rim.
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The crater floor of Tycho is melted smooth. The raised mound in the middle rises about 2 km above the surrounding surface, said to have been the rebound of the material. Planet scientists propose that this was caused by material melted from the impact pooling inside the crater.
2006-06-26
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