Scientists Discover Largest New Impact Crater in the Solar System Ever—on Our Moon
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On October 24, 2025, Robert Wagner, a researcher at the U.S. space company Intuitive Machines, was scanning lunar maps as usual. As an image processing expert analyzing observation data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), his task for the day was to check data quality. During his work, at one place
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has discovered an extremely young crater on the Moon that the US space agency says is the largest newly formed impact crater ever discovered in the solar system. The object, called McGetchin, gives scientists a rare opportunity to compare the same part of the lunar surface before and after a major impact. The crater is about 222 meters in diameter and approximately 43 meters deep. According to NASA, it w…
NASA identified on the Moon a huge crater that formed between April 11 and May 22, 2024, when an asteroid or comet between three and six stories of height impacted the lunar surface. The finding was made by images obtained by...
Crater on the Moon formed in 2024 has 222 meters and reveals the effects of impacts for future lunar bases. Read in the People's Gazette.
Experts estimate that "an impact of this magnitude occurs only once every 132 years"
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