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Tycho Crater

The Moon's freshest great crater — terraced walls and a central peak, laser-measured.

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LRO LOLA laser altimetry, 118 m/px · product Lunar_LRO_LOLA_Global_LDEM_118m_Mar2014 · NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University · USGS Astrogeology. Scene 177 × 194 km, elevation -3,542 m to 1,839 m against the 1,737.4 km lunar reference sphere. Surface color: LROC WAC global mosaic (100 m/px, grayscale — this camera's mosaic band), NASA/GSFC/ASU.

No generative models anywhere on this page — the pipeline crops, resamples down, and normalizes; it never invents a bump the instrument didn’t measure.

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