We just got our first look at the impact crater left by a wayward SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that struck the Moon earlier this month.
The Falcon 9 rocket crashed into the lunar surface after being stranded in a highly elliptical orbit, and NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) captured a series of images of a new crater that formed from the impact.
The crater appears to be 60 feet wide (18 meters) and less than 10 feet deep (3 meters), according to NASA.
Moon crash
On January 15, 2025, a Falcon 9 rocket launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center carrying a pair of commercial lunar landers. The rocket’s upper stage failed to reenter Earth’s…
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