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A discarded SpaceX Falcon 9 stage crashed into the Moon on Aug. 5, leaving behind a newly formed crater about 60 feet wide. NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured detailed images showing bright and dark streaks of debris blasted across the surrounding surface. The impact even exposed fresh material buried beneath the Moon’s weathered exterior.
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A discarded SpaceX Falcon 9 stage crashed into the Moon on Aug. 5, leaving behind a newly formed crater about 60 feet wide. NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured detailed images showing bright and dark streaks of debris blasted across the surrounding surface. The impact even exposed fresh material buried beneath the Moon’s weathered exterior.
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NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has spotted the crater gouged out on the moon by a SpaceX rocket on Aug. 5, finding it to be about 60 feet (18 meters) wide.
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AIPROPX has consolidated 4 reports from 4 outlets into a single canonical entry on “A SpaceX rocket slammed into the moon this month — and a NASA spacecraft has spotted its lunar grave (photos).” Every covered outlet is based in Other.
The earliest report in this entry came from Space.com (Aug 19, 2026, 17:00 UTC); the most recent came from AL.com (Aug 20, 2026, 18:07 UTC).
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