{"id":585865,"date":"2026-08-07T10:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T10:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/585865\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T10:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T10:00:10","slug":"before-and-after-images-of-spacex-moon-crash-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/585865\/","title":{"rendered":"Before and after images of SpaceX Moon crash released"},"content":{"rendered":"

A South Korean satellite has captured the first pictures of the Moon’s fresh crash scene caused by a stray SpaceX rocket.<\/p>\n

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

Danuri made multiple passes, taking photos from lunar orbit that were released by the space agency yesterday.<\/p>\n

The terrain is noticeably darker where the rocket hit and carved out a crater, sending dust and rock everywhere.<\/p>\n

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\n(Image: NASA via KARI\/KASA)<\/p>\n

Korean space officials said Danuri gathered before and after shots.<\/p>\n

Nasa expects its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to fly over the crash site next week to view the aftermath.<\/p>\n

Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX launched Danuri from Cape Canaveral in 2022.<\/p>\n

The company also sent a pair of private lunar landers to the Moon last year.<\/p>\n

The upper stage from that launch is what crashed into the Moon this week at 8,700km\/h<\/a>, 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’s fresh crash scene caused by a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[61,60,82],"class_list":["post-585865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585865","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=585865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}