Abandoned rocket hits the Moon

The abandoned rocket part, which was on a collision course with the Moon, crashed into the lunar surface on March 4. The collision occurred at 5:55 pm (IST) in ...

🌕 The impact is unlikely to cause a crater larger than 20 metres on the northern rim of Hertzprung Crater, which is 500 km across. Prior to the collision, the agency even shared a picture showing the site where the rocket will crash. The collision occurred at 5:55 pm (IST) in the Hertzsprung Crater, which is on the far side of the moon.

Scientists believe a roughly four-ton discarded rocket has slammed into the moon while travelling at 9300 kilometres per hour. However, there is no proof ...

With this, the space agency said it may be able to later identify the crater formed by the impact. Upon deeper analysis, he concluded it was a discarded rocket booster from China's Chang'e 5-T1 mission in 2014. Both probes are only able to observe any region on the Moon once a month.

Discarded rocket hardware just left a crater the size of a basketball court on the lunar surface.

The rocket booster that helped propel the James Webb Space Telescope last year, for example, was designed to end up in a peaceful orbit around the sun; Gray said the booster will swing past Earth sometime in 2047, but at a safe distance. Wagner expects they’ll see a big splash of material on the landscape, and then, when they zoom in, the shape of the crater itself. This past January, Gray noticed that the rocket debris was tracing a path directly toward the moon. According to Gray, the space junk turned out to be a discarded rocket booster from a Chinese mission that sent a spacecraft toward the moon in 2014. The debris, a piece of a rocket about the size of a school bus, had been floating in space for seven years. The moon is a wonderland of craters—thousands of them, carved by asteroids hitting the surface over billions of years.