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In the dead of night on Wednesday (Aug. 5), part of a defunct SpaceX rocket knocked into the moon at more than 5,000 miles per hour (8,000 km/h)– and a Korean lunar satellite has actually simply shared the very first images of the after-effects.
A series of pictures snapped by South Korea’s Danuri lunar orbiter on Wednesday expose a little, blackened crater at the supposed website where an utilized Falcon 9 upper phase crashed into the lunar surface area around 2:35 a.m. ET. The crash took place near Einstein crater, on the northwestern limb of the moon, near the terminator zone where lunar day and night satisfy. The pictures were shared by the Korea AeroSpace Administration on social networks on Thursday (Aug. 6).
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