About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 21. Chapters: Tycho, Surveyor 7, Luna 5, Landings on other planets, Hell, Clavius, Mee, Deluc, Longomontanus, Wilhelm, Maginus, Schickard, Heinsius, Scheiner, Bayer, Wurzelbauer, Street, Hainzel, Phocylides, Gauricus, Proctor, Capuanus, Vitello, Drebbel, Zucchius, Fourier, Deslandres, Sasserides, Epimenides, Lexell, Orontius, Blancanus, Noggerath, Segner, Schiller, Lacroix, Weigel, Haidinger, Rutherfurd, Cichus, Clausius, Saussure, Weiss, Bettinus, Palus Epidemiarum, Lagalla, Brown, Ball, Rost, Dunthorne, Porter, Pictet, Huggins, Ramsden, Lacus Excellentiae, Montanari, Lee, Nasmyth, Lepaute, Marth, Elger, Lehmann, Lacus Timoris. Excerpt: This is a list of all spacecraft landings on other planets and bodies in the solar system, including soft landings and both intended and unintended hard impacts. The list includes orbiters that were intentionally crashed, but not orbiters which later crashed in an unplanned manner due to orbit decay. For a list of all planetary missions, including orbiters and flybys, see List of Solar System probes. Note: Phobos landing was unsuccessfully attempted by Phobos 2 in 1989. Tycho is a prominent lunar impact crater located in the southern lunar highlands, named after the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546-1601). To the south is the crater Street; to the east is Pictet, and to the north-northeast is Sasserides. The surface around Tycho is replete with craters of various sizes, many overlapping still older craters. Some of the smaller craters are secondary craters formed from larger chunks of ejecta from Tycho. Tycho is a relatively young crater, with an estimated age of 108 million years (Ma), based on analysis of samples of the crater rays recovered during the Apollo 17 mission. This age suggests that the impactor may have been a member of the Baptistina family of asteroids, but as the compositi...
