Lewis, Isabel Martin, b. 1881 · New York, Duffield & Company · leaf 82
d and scarred. A conspicuous crater, visible even to the nakedeye, is Tycho, often called the metropolitan craterof the moon. It lies near the south pole of themoon, has a diameter of over fifty miles and isnearly 17,000 feet deep. It has a central hill 6.000feet high and is a typical lunar crater.… … THE MOON AGE, 8}4 DAYS (Photographed by Ritchey at the Yerkes Observatory) SPLENDORS OF THE SKY from it like brilliant lines of longitude. Theyappear to be neither elevated nor depressed, butrun in remarkably straight lines over hill and plaininterrupted by no feature of the lunar landscape. These…
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