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Images taken by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter before and after the Falcon 9 rocket booster effect on Aug. 5.
(Image credit: NASA/GSFC/Intuitive Machines)
NASA has actually lastly exposed its very first pictures of the crater made by a SpaceX Falcon 9 upper phase that smashed into the moon on Aug. 5.
The images, caught by the area company’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) in between Aug. 11 and 12, reveal a 60-foot-wide (18 meters) crater surrounded by streaks of lunar rock tossed up by the rocket’s effect.
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