NASA's LRO Photographs New Moon Crater Left by SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Stage

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NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) captured images of a newly formed lunar crater between August 11 and 12. The crater was created on August 5 when a SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage struck the Moon's surface. The rocket stage had been left over from the January 2025 launch of the Firefly Blue Ghost 1 mission. The LRO imaging campaign was aimed at documenting the impact site and gathering new details about the resulting crater.

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