US EditionIn a rare event, the moon got a massive new crater
The crater formed in 2024 with an average depth of 43 meters and bright ejecta extending hundreds of meters, marking a rare lunar impact expected once every 139 years.
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The Moon Got a New Crater in 2024, and Nobody Noticed Until Now
As scientists were combing through reams of data collected by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, they spotted something incredibly rare. Or, rather, something that we can see all the time just by looking up at the moon at night, but new occurrences of it are incredibly rare—they spotted some fresh moon craters. Logic dictates that if the moon had been slammed into by a space rock big enough to leave an imprint noticeable by satellite imagery, …
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der Standard DEIn April or May 2024 a chunk hit the moon and left a decent hole in the ground. That's rather bad news for future moon stations
A unique crater formed on the moon, just under our nose. A routine search for images from NASA's Lunar Recognition Orbiter camera revealed a new crater as wide as two American football fields, reported planetologist Mark Robinson on March 17 at the lunar science meeting [...]
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