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SpaceX Rocket Crashes on Moon | Sacramento News
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter just captured stunning new images of a fresh crater on the moon — made by a SpaceX rocket stage that crashed there in January 2025. The impact, part of NASA’s push to involve private companies in lunar exploration, created a 60-foot-wide, 10-foot-deep hole with dramatic “butterfly wing” streaks revealing layers of space-weathered and freshly blasted material. Taken from 60 miles up just a week after the crash, the photos offer a rare, high-speed view of space debris’ aftermath — and echo past missions like NASA’s 2009 water ice confirmation, proving…
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