Tycho - 90 km wide, 5 km deep

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When you see all those white rays spreading across the moon it seems that they must come from a huge crater.  Instead they come from a new crater.  Tycho is only 90 million years old.  The dinosaurs saw the explosion that made it.  The central mountain is 2 km tall.

Image:  April 18, 2005