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Showing Original Post only (View all)A "mystery rocket" crashed into the moon and NASA is baffled as to origin [View all]
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A mystery rocket crashed into the Moon earlier this year and NASA says none of Earths space-faring nations have claimed it as theirs:
NASA has discovered the crash site of a "mystery rocket body" that collided with the Moon's surface earlier this year. The impact left behind a widespread "double crater," meaning it wasn't the average rocket.
However, since its crash landing, none of Earth's space-exploring nations have claimed responsibility for the mysterious projectile, leaving NASA scientists baffled as to who was behind its launch. New images shared on June 24 by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter show the unusual impact site.
"Surprisingly the crater is actually two craters, an eastern crater (18-meter diameter, about 19.5 yards) superimposed on a western crater (16-meter diameter, about 17.5 yards," NASA reported. "The double crater was unexpected...No other rocket body impacts on the Moon created double craters."
Astronomers anticipated the crash after spotting the unidentified rocket on a collision course with the Moon late last year. It finally hit on March 4 near the Hertzsprung crater, a "complex" impact crater on the far side of the Moon. NASA stated that the two large masses on each end of the rocket may have caused the craters, but noted that the impact marks are highly unusual. Spent rockets, according to NASA, tend to have a heavy motor at one end and a lighter empty fuel tank on the other, scientists say. The space agency did not offer any guesses on what the additional mass was.
https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/mystery-rocket-NASA-moon-crash-country-origin-17273903.php
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A "mystery rocket" crashed into the moon and NASA is baffled as to origin [View all]
JoanofArgh
Jun 2022
OP
No, it wasn't 'burning' - none of them can do that for long - just minutes
muriel_volestrangler
Jun 2022
#20
NASA sent it. It's a scam to get them funding to send another astronaut to the Moon.
Towlie
Jun 2022
#7
Does the rocket look like a coffin and does it say Hargreeves anywhere on
Baitball Blogger
Jun 2022
#14