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NASA finally found SpaceX Moon crash site | DW News
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0:45Now PlayingNASA has released new images of the crater created when a SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage crashed into the Moon. To capture the site, engineers had to tilt the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's cameras during passes just 97 km above the surface and time each shot with extreme precision. A delay of just 10 seconds would have shifted the target by 16 km.
The effort was guided by images from South Korea's Danuri lunar orbiter, which helped pinpoint the impact location. The resulting photos reveal a crater about 18 meters wide and less than 3 meters deep, surrounded by bright and dark streaks of lunar material blasted out by the collision.
Scientists are now combining data from NASA and Danuri to better understand how impacts excavate the Moon's surface and expose material hidden beneath it.
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