A NASA Scientist Found a Huge New Crater on the Moon by Accident
The moon has more than 2 million craters on its surface, but the overwhelming majority of the big ones happened long before humans ever started looking at it. That means when someone notices a new big crater, it’s a pretty big deal, and that’s exactly what happened when NASA’s Lunar Orbiter found a brand-new crater it had never seen before that was large enough to get someone’s attention.
The crater was spotted by NASA scientist Robert Wagner on a routine data-quality check and published in an article in Science Advances. Wagner says the object that crashed into the moon and created the crater likely hit sometime between April 11, 2024, and May 22, 2024, and was likely about the size of a six-story building. It left a rather sizable dent, which now has the distinction of being the biggest new crater ever spotted by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
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