NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured an image of a crater on the moon’s surface that’s likely the impact site of Russia’s Luna 25 mission after it crashed.
A new crater has appeared on the moon, and it was likely created when Russia’s uncrewed Luna 25 mission crashed into the lunar surface. Images taken by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and released by the agency on Thursday reveal the fresh crater. The Luna 25 spacecraft, Russia’s first lunar lander in 47 years, launched on August 10 and was expected to land near the lunar south pole a couple of weeks later.
The agency shared an estimate of the impact point on August 21, which allowed members of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter team to send commands to the spacecraft the following day to take images of the site. The orbiter took images during a four-hour period on August 24, revealing the new crater. The photos were compared with those captured of the same site before the crash, taken in June 2022.
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