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NASA's LRO Discovers Rare 728-Foot-Wide Crater on the Moon

NASA scientist Robert Wagner discovered a massive new lunar crater while performing a routine data check on imagery from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. The impact, likely caused by an object roughly the size of a six-story building sometime between April and May 2024, created a crater 728 feet wide and 141 feet deep, the largest fresh impact site the orbiter has ever recorded.

cnet.com · 2026-09-17

NASA researchers identify unusual cold-spot crater from 2024 lunar impact

NASA-affiliated scientists have documented the largest newly formed crater on the Moon, resulting from an impact recorded in 2024. The impact site is unusual because it produced a cold spot stretching more than four miles across, a thermal signature researchers describe as extremely rare.

gizmodo.com · 2026-09-17