A new scar has appeared on the Moon after a leftover piece of a SpaceX rocket smashed into its surface.
Before-and-after images taken by South Korea’s Danuri Moon orbiter show changes to the lunar landscape, after the empty rocket part crashed on Wednesday.
The crash did not put anyone on Earth in danger. The Moon is about 384,000 kilometres away and the impact was relatively small.
However, the event is useful for scientists because they can compare before-and-after images to see exactly how the Moon’s surface changed, and learn more about what happens when human-made space junk, or other objects, hit the Moon.