NASA images show 60-foot-wide crater on moon after SpaceX rocket booster crash
A NASA spacecraft circling the moon is providing the sharpest views yet of the crater carved out by a crashing SpaceX rocket.
TL;DR
- NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured new images of a crater on the moon created by a SpaceX rocket booster impact.
- The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket booster, weighing 8,800 pounds, crashed into the moon on August 5th.
- The resulting crater is approximately 60 feet wide and less than 10 feet deep.
- The images show distinct dark and bright streaks around the crater, representing excavated material and fresh debris.
- South Korea's Danuri spacecraft was the first to photograph the impact site.
- NASA has previously intentionally crashed a rocket stage into the moon to search for water ice.