In 2024 something slammed into the Moon and left a stadium-sized crater, the kind of impact that only happens once a century. NASA's LRO caught it and our Diviner instrument found the surface was disturbed more than 3km out. Impacts garden the Moon way beyond their own rim.
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Rare new lunar crater shows how impacts remodel the moon's surface
In a once-in-a-century event, an impact left a crater the size of two football fields and churned the surface for over 3 km in every direction.
