Here Are the First Images of the Crater Left on the Moon by SpaceX’s Rocket
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South Korea's Danuri lunar orbiter captured the first images of the crater left by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stage that crashed into the moon. The rocket launched in January 2025 to deliver lunar landers, but spent over a year in an unstable orbit before gravity pulled it into the lunar surface. The Very Large Telescope also confirmed the impact by detecting sodium and lithium rising from the moon's surface.
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