Earlier this June, NASA pointed their Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft’s cameras at the Tycho crater on the moon. They’ve just published a few gorgeous photos of Tycho’s central peak. According to NASA, the crater itself is about 51 miles in diameter.
The asteroid zoomed by Earth at a perfectly safe distance of around 1.8 million miles (2.9 kilometers).
Engineers expect to lose contact with the private US moon lander Odysseus on Tuesday, cutting short the mission after its sideways touchdown last week.
NASA announced Tuesday that a $32.7 million Capstone spacecraft intended to try out a skewed lunar orbit had lost contact, but agency engineers are confident
