A SpaceX rocket slammed into the moon this month — and a NASA spacecraft has spotted its lunar grave (photos)

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has spotted the crater gouged out on the moon by a SpaceX rocket on Aug.

The short version

• 5, finding it to be about 60 feet (18 meters) wide.
• This is an animated before-and-after view of the crater formed after a Falcon 9 upper stage struck the moon's surface on Aug.
• 12 by the Narrow-Angle Camera on NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

What happened

These images are enlarged three times from the original, with north facing up, and they cover an area about a quarter of a mile wide. Image of the Falcon 9 impact site, taken by South Korea's Danuri lunar orbiter.

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