{"id":585582,"date":"2026-08-07T02:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T02:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/585582\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T02:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T02:58:12","slug":"satellite-captures-before-and-after-pictures-of-spacex-rockets-moon-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/585582\/","title":{"rendered":"Satellite captures before and after pictures of SpaceX rocket\u2019s Moon crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A South Korean satellite has captured the first pictures of the Moon\u2019s fresh crash scene caused by a stray SpaceX rocket.<\/p>\n<p>The Korea Aerospace Research Institute\u2019s Danuri spacecraft flew over the impact site soon after the Falcon 9 upper stage inadvertently ploughed into the Moon on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Danuri made multiple passes, taking photos from lunar orbit that were released by the space agency on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"364\" width=\"546\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/satellite-captures-before-and-after-pictures-of-spacex-rocket-s-moon-crash.jpg\" alt=\"This combination of images provided by Nasa and the Korea Aerospace Research Institute shows, left, an area of the Moon's surface before October 1 2015, and, right, after August 5 2026 when a SpaceX rocket segment collided with the Moon \" data-title=\"SpaceX Moon Crash\" data-copyright-holder=\"AP\" data-copyright-notice=\"\" data-credit=\"Uncredited\" data-usage-terms=\"This content is intended for editorial use only. For other uses, additional clearances may be required. Handout \u2013 Government Produced\"\/>This combination of images provided by Nasa and the Korea Aerospace Research Institute shows an area of the Moon\u2019s surface before, left, October 1 2015, and after, right, Wednesday, August 5 2026, a SpaceX rocket segment collided with the Moon (Nasa, Korea Aerospace Research Institute via AP)\n<\/p>\n<p>The terrain is noticeably darker where the rocket hit and carved out a crater, sending dust and rock everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Korean space officials said Danuri gathered before and after shots.<\/p>\n<p>Nasa expects its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to fly over the crash site next week to view the aftermath.<\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX launched Danuri from Cape Canaveral in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The company also sent a pair of private lunar landers to the Moon last year.<\/p>\n<p>The upper stage from that launch is what crashed into the Moon this week at 5,400mph, placed on an accidental collision course by solar activity and gravity, according to SpaceX.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A South Korean satellite has captured the first pictures of the Moon\u2019s fresh crash scene caused by a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-585582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}