Fresh 225-Meter Lunar Crater Captured Moments After Formation
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter images confirm a freshly formed 225-meter lunar crater from spring 2024—the largest crater seen during the LRO era—featuring a funnel-shaped rim, 43-meter depth, large ejecta blocks, and glassy rock. The event, inferred to come from a south-southwest impact and documented with rare before-and-after imagery, offers a valuable dataset to refine crater-formation models; such fresh lunar craters are expected roughly once every 139 years on any given patch of surface.