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NASA Finds Huge New Moon Crater Near McGetchin Site
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The new crater discovered on the Moon is about 220 meters in diameter and 48 meters deep, and appears to have been formed between April 11 and May 22, 2024, according to a study published in Science Advances. It is larger than the Colosseum.
NASA by chance finds the largest crater ever formed in the solar system, and it was right on the moon.
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How Does McGetchin Crater Change Lunar Impact Risk Planning?
A space rock struck the Moon between April 11 and May 22, 2024, leaving a crater 222 meters wide and about 43 meters deep. Scientists identified the feature in imagery from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), named it McGetchin, and described it in the September 2026 peer-reviewed study A New 222-m Diameter Lunar Crater.
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