surface feature flight · IAU named feature
Explore Tycho in COSMOS
A young, 85.29 km lunar impact crater with a prominent ray system. Its name and coordinates are adopted by the IAU; the visible surface remains LROC observational imagery. The link below flies the camera to these official coordinates on the parent body.
Measured facts
- Feature type
- Impact crater
- Body
- Moon
- IAU coordinates
- -43.30°, -11.22°
- Diameter
- 85 km
- Camera stops at
- 125 km
What opens when you follow this link
COSMOS opens in the same continuous 3D scene and moves the camera to Tycho. Nothing reloads, and the breadcrumb trail stays clickable for the way back outward through the Solar System, the measured stellar catalogue and the Galactic view.
If your browser cannot run WebGL2, this page is still the useful part: it carries the identity, the measured values and the provenance, in text.
Where the full record lives
This page is the share link. The complete data record for Tycho — delivered imagery resolution, observation epoch, source licence, processing chain and every disclosed limitation — is on its reference page, which is linked below.
Coordinates are not elevation
A feature record gives a body-fixed longitude, latitude and diameter. It does not supply height above a datum, slope or a landing site, and COSMOS never derives those from it. The surface you see is the parent body’s observational mosaic.
Datasets behind this page
- NASA Moon Trek LROC WAC morphology mosaicNASA Solar System Treks / JPL Moon Trek · observational-composite · 303 pixels/degree, approximately 100 m/pixel at the lunar equator
- JPL Horizons planetary state archive (2020–2040)NASA/JPL Horizons · derived-scientific-model · One discrete geometric state vector per object at JD 2461281.5 TDB
Content updated 2026-09-26. Every value on this page is computed from the shipped datasets; where a source publishes no value, the page says so instead of estimating one.