Before-and-After NASA Images Show Crater Carved by a SpaceX Rocket that Slammed Into the Moon - WXXV News 25
NASA said the crater is about 60 feet wide and less than 10 feet deep after the rocket stage hit the Moon at 5,400 mph.
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Before-and-after NASA images show crater carved by a SpaceX rocket that slammed into the moon - WXXV News 25
By MARCIA DUNN CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A NASA spacecraft circling the moon is providing the sharpest views yet of the crater carved by a crashing SpaceX rocket. The space agency released before-and-after photos of the impact area on Tuesday. The Falcon rocket’s upper stage plowed into the moon at 5,400 mph (8,700 kph) on Aug. 5 after drifting through space for more than a year. It launched a pair of private moon landers with experiments an…
On August 5, a stage of SpaceX rocket struck the Moon violently at nearly 9,000 km/h. NASA's orbital probe captured the impressive images of an all-new 18-metre-wide crater, immediately reviving the debates on the alarming management of space waste in orbit.
The upper part of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket crashed into the moon's surface in early August, and NASA is now releasing detailed images of the new crater created by the impact for the first time. The crater, which is about 60 feet (18 meters) in diameter, was discovered in images taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO. The impact occurred on August 5, 2026. This is the upper stage of a Falcon 9 that was used in January 2025 to launch Fi…
The US space agency NASA revealed the first images of the huge crater left on the surface of the Moon by the impact of a higher stage of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The incident occurred on August 5, and the photos, captured by NASA's Lunar Recognition Orbiter (LRO), show a hole of approximately 18 meters [...]
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