Nasa says SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage hit the Moon exactly as predicted, revealing new clues about lunar impacts |
The Moon has absorbed billions of impacts over roughly four billion years, most from meteoroids whose origin, mass and impact velocity remain permanently unknown. The object expected to strike near the Einstein and Bell craters on Wednesday, 5 August, breaks that pattern entirely. According to Nasa, a spent Falcon 9 upper stage from a January…