The resulting crater is too small to be seen with the naked eye.
On Wednesday (5), the 8,000-pound SpaceX rocket’s upper stage, the size of a school bus, hit the Moon’s surface.
The impact had the power of three tons of TNT, sending out ‘a cloud of debris and dust’.
Korean and Chinese satellites captured images of the out-of-control rocket crash.
Watch the animation depicting the impact at seven times the speed of sound – NOT actual footage.
SpaceX rocket crashes into Moon, carving 100‑foot crater
A Falcon 9 stage slammed into the lunar surface at seven times the speed of sound, releasing energy equivalent to three...
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