NASA spacecraft discovers a huge new crater on the moon

Newly formed moon crater is once-in-a-century discovery

In 2024, a space rock slammed into the moon, creating a new crater in the surface. The newly formed moon crater is about 728 feet wide and 141 feet deep. The post Newly formed moon crater is once-in-a-century discovery first appeared on EarthSky.

NASA's moon orbiter has spotted an impact crater that only happens once a century

Images taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter led to the discovery of a moon crater that's 728 feet wide. Impacts like that only happen once a century.

NASA’s Moon orbiter finds a 728-foot crater that wasn’t there before

NASA scientists discovered the largest newly formed impact crater ever identified in the solar system on the Moon, measuring 728 feet wide and forming between April and May 2024.

A new giant moon crater just set a solar system record

NASA found the biggest new moon crater of the modern space age. The 728-foot impact left a four-mile-wide bruise in the lunar soil.

Asteroid larger than St Paul's Cathedral smashed into Moon in 'once-in-a-lifetime' collision

An asteroid larger than St Paul's Cathedral smashed into the Moon in a rare "once-in-a-lifetime" collision, Nasa has revealed.Robert Wagner, a scientist with Nasa's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), was scanning a giant map of the Moon in May 2024 when he noticed an unusually large bright spot circled by a dark halo."I just stopped, dropped everything, and started looking into what that spot was," he has now revealed.Researchers later determin…

Asteroid Carves 'Once-in-a-Century' Moon Crater, NASA Finds

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter discovered McGetchin crater, a massive "once-in-a-century" impact site carved by a building-sized asteroid.