Astronomy Adventure – No Blood Moon But Three Craters

I can’t offer you images of the Super Blue Blood Moon since I was located too far east to see totality. Instead I can just give you a photo of three lunar craters: Tycho, Maginus, and Clavius. As you can see by the lack of other craters inside Tycho, it is a relatively young feature. The central peak is close to 1 mile high. And in 1968 Surveyor 7 landed just north of the crater’s rim (to the top of the photo). The eroded rims and crater-pocked interior indicate that Maginus is ancient. Clavius is enormous, the third largest visible crater, and is also one of the older formations on the Moon, an estimated 4 billion year old.