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In the early hours of August 5, the upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket crashed onto the lunar surface. NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured images of the resulting crater on August 11‑12. To photograph the impact site, engineers tilted the LRO so its cameras faced downward while the spacecraft orbited 60 miles above the crater. The images were taken with the LRO’s Narrow‑Angle Camera, which can resolve lunar features as small as three feet.

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