Sunrise over Tycho's crater. Click for larger. Image: NASA/Goddard and Arizona state University

It’s been a while since I posted an image from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter so I thought today would be good and I really liked this one of the sunrise on the crater Tycho’s central peak.

BTW: Congrats to Roger for his riddle win, he gets a tee shirt of his choice from HeadlineShirts.com.

I’d also like to mention after quite a few hours work it appears we’ve solved the server problems we were having and the missing elements on the site should be coming back on shortly.

Anyways here’s the NASA/Goddard and Arizona state University caption for the photo.

On June 10, 2011, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter angled its orbit 65* to the west, allowing the spacecraft’s cameras to capture a dramatic sunrise view of the moon’s Tycho crater. A very popular target with amateur astronomers, Tycho is located at 43.37*S, 348.68*E, and is about 51 miles (82 km) in diameter. The summit of the central peak is 1.24 miles (2 km) above the crater floor. The distance from Tycho’s floor to its rim is about 2.92 miles (4.7 km). Tycho crater’s central peak complex, shown here, is about 9.3 miles (15 km) wide, left to right (southeast to northwest in this view). Image Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Arizona State University.

You can get larger images here.