Take your own flyby of the giant Tycho crater on the Moon!

Thanks to Japan's Kaguya lunar orbiter - reaching its nominal observation orbit around the Moon mid-October of 2007 -- numbers of fascinating, up-close pics of the lunar landscape are being taken.

A new one that's up from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is of Tycho - and it can be viewed at:

http://wms.selene.jaxa.jp/data/jpn/tc/012/tc_012_a_l.jpg

Better yet...if you want to zoom over the site, just fly your Internet connection to:

http://wms.selene.jaxa.jp/data/jpn/tc/012/tycho_20mbps.html

And while you're doing your lunar swing-bys, also check out a new image snapped of the Apollo 17 landing site!

That mission took place in December 1972 - quite a long time ago. But get a fresh look at their exploration zone by going to:

http://wms.kaguya.jaxa.jp/data/en/tc/009/tc_009.jpg

Happy viewing!

-- Leonard David