The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera team recently released this figure showing a new crater on the Moon the formed sometime in the last 38 years. They know it's that young because the crater wasn't there when Apollo 15 flew over the same location in 1971!
Image credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University
Link to original article here: http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/news/index.php?/archives/260-New-Impact-Crater-on-the-Moon!.html
How very perceptive!
ReplyDeleteIt's pretty amazing to me that someone had the patience to look through hundreds of images to find this one tiny crater!
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