Moon Forms Rare 225-Meter Crater in High-Speed Impact
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NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured before-and-after images of a 225‑meter crater formed in spring 2024 by a fast-moving space rock, making it the largest crater formed during the LRO mission and providing rare, high-resolution data to refine crater-formation models for the Moon and other rocky worlds.
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