NASA released a series of photos showing the crash site of Israel’s Beresheet moon lander, which smashed into the lunar surface April 11 after a malfunction caused its descent engine to shut down prematurely. - NBCNewsMACH
, a camera-equipped spacecraft that’s been circling the moon since 2009. LRO photographed the crash site from an altitude of 56 miles above the lunar surface. faster than intended, Mark Robinson, a geologist at Arizona State University and the principal investigator of LRO’s imaging system, wrote in a blog post.
Designed and built by the Israeli nonprofit SpaceIL, the $100-million Beresheet lander was to have been the first privately funded spacecraft to touch down softly on the moon. So far, the only spacecraft to have landed on the moon have been those built by the United States, Russia and China.
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