Tag: Craters

  • NASA’s Moon Orbiter Spots New, ‘Once-in-Century’ Moon Crater

    NASA’s Moon Orbiter Spots New, ‘Once-in-Century’ Moon Crater

    It started as a routine data-quality check. But as Robert Wagner, a scientist with NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), scanned a giant Moon map on his computer screen, an unusually large bright spot circled by a dark halo caught his…

  • NASA’s LRO Images Falcon 9 Crater on Moon, Learns New Details

    NASA’s LRO Images Falcon 9 Crater on Moon, Learns New Details

    Between Aug. 11 and 12, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) captured a series of images of a new crater on the Moon. The crater formed on Aug. 5, when a SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage impacted the surface following its…

  • Mercury’s Strange Hollows

    Mercury’s Strange Hollows

    Enigmatic depressions on the surface have puzzled scientists since the 1970s For decades, scientists have been puzzling over strange hollows on Mercury’s surface, thousands of peculiar depressions at a variety of longitudes and latitudes, ranging in size from 60 feet…