NASA's LRO—the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter—spacecraft has imaged a new crater on the moon's surface that is likely the impact site of Russia's Luna 25 mission.
During its descent, Luna 25 experienced an anomaly that caused it to impact the surface of the moon on Aug. 19.
LROC NAC image enlarged four times centered on the likely Luna 25 crater. Image width is 275 meters; north is up. . Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Arizona State University LRO's most recent"before" image of the area was captured in June 2022 ; thus, the crater formed sometime after that date. Since this new crater is close to the Luna 25 estimated impact point, the LRO team concludes it is likely to be from that mission, rather than a natural impactor.
The new crater is about 10 meters in diameter and is located at 57.865 degrees south latitude and 61.360 degrees east longitude at an elevation of about minus 360 meters. The impact point was on the steep inner rim of Pontécoulant G
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