NASA images reveal 60-foot Moon crater from SpaceX Falcon 9 upper-stage crash
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NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured images of a roughly 60-foot-wide, 10-foot-deep crater on the Moon left by a SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage that crashed after an extended, unstable trajectory. The orbiter photographed the site from about 60 miles altitude during Aug. 11–12, after global coordination among scientists and hobbyists to locate the impact, with the images released on Aug. 18.
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