SpaceX rocket crashes into moon. Now NASA can see the damage

There's a brand new crater on the moon created by, get this, a SpaceX rocket that slammed into the lunar surface two weeks ago

The nearly 9,000 pound Falcon 9 upper stage had been drifting through space since launching in January of last year

Then on August 5th, it hit the moon at about 5,400 miles an hour with the force of nearly three tons of TNT

And now we can see what it left behind. NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured these before and after images of the impact site

That new divot you see there, surrounded by bright and dark streaks of material thrown out by the impact, is the new crater

And it's not exactly small. NASA measures it at about 60 feet across and just under 10 feet deep

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has been circling the moon since 2009. And in this case, it gave scientists their most detailed look yet at what happens when a piece of human-made space debris hits the lunar surface

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