NASA spacecraft discovers a huge new crater on the moon
The crater measures 222 meters wide and may help scientists assess debris risks for future lunar bases, NASA said.
- NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter discovered a massive new crater on the lunar surface, detailed in two studies appearing Wednesday in Science Advances, lead author Mark Robinson said.
- Named for the late Thomas McGetchin, a former director of Houston's Lunar and Planetary Institute, the crater spans about 728 feet across and is up to 141 feet deep.
- Co-Author David Paige of the University of California, Los Angeles, likens the impact to gardening, with sediments churned across more than 66 miles of the lunar surface.
- Scientists aim to calculate risks of ejected material striking NASA's planned lunar base, as such impacts occur once every 132 years, helping engineers harden structures.
- The LRO shows the lunar top inch of soil is overturned every 80,000 years, meaning Apollo moonwalkers' footprints will "definitely be long gone in that time frame," Robinson said.
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NASA has found a new crater on the moon that is 221 meters wide and 41 meters deep. According to the space agency, such a crater forms "perhaps only once a century, if not longer." The crater was discovered in photos taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), a lunar probe that has been performing measurements with seven different instruments in an orbit at an altitude of 100 kilometers above the celestial body for 17 years. Image analys…
An American researcher discovered an imposing crater that had recently formed on the surface of the Moon thanks to images of a Nasa probe, a "event that only happens once a century" according to scientists. ...
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter discovered the 222-meter-wide and 43-meter-deep McGetchin crater on the Moon, formed in 2024. It is the largest new impact crater in the solar system, forming once every 132 years.
The new crater remained undiscovered for two years. Such a discovery occurs only "once in the century or even less," NASA explained.
Yesterday Wednesday, NASA announced the discovery of a new collision crater on the Moon, the largest of the modern craters observed by scientists in the solar system, which was formed following the collision of a space crime the size of a three-to-six-story building on the Moon between 11 April and 22 May 2024.
It turned out to be the largest recently formed crater ever identified in the solar system, according to a study published on Wednesday in the journal Science Advances.
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