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SpaceX rocket leaves a 60-foot crater on the Moon’s surface
Nasa’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured images of a 18.3-meter wide crater on the Moon, created when a Falcon 9 SpaceX rocket impacted the surface August 5.
Images from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter reveal a crater on the Moon measuring 18.3 metres wide and less than 3.05 metres deep, the result of impact from debris from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Despite completing 677 missions, this…
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