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    MOON TOUR CLAVIUS CRATER

    Sep 09, 2021 2 minutes

    f you’re a fan of the classic 1968 science-fiction film , this month’s lunar ‘celebrity feature’ will need no introduction. Not the bright-rayed crater Tycho, where the alien monolith was unearthed; Tycho is 430 kilometres (267 miles) to the north of our destination: Clavius, a crater so huge it’s easily visible to the naked eye when it lies near the terminator, appearing as an obvious notch between the

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