New New Orleans, Tycho and St. Paul’s
The Moon’s most visible crater (although not its largest) is Tycho:
It is named after the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe, the last pre-telescopic astronomer.
Though Tycho was formed ‘only’ 100 million years ago, we know exactly where and how it happened, because we see its ejecta pattern, the hundred-mile splash of basalt and rubble radiating outward […]
