{"id":577435,"date":"2026-08-07T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T10:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/577435\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T10:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T10:00:09","slug":"before-and-after-images-from-spacex-rocket-moon-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/577435\/","title":{"rendered":"Before and after images from SpaceX rocket Moon crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A new scar has appeared on the Moon after a leftover piece of a SpaceX rocket smashed into its surface. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Before-and-after images taken by South Korea&#8217;s Danuri Moon orbiter show changes to the lunar landscape, after the empty rocket part crashed on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The crash did not put anyone on Earth in danger. The Moon is about 384,000 kilometres away and the impact was relatively small.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, the event is useful for scientists because they can compare before-and-after images to see exactly how the Moon&#8217;s surface changed, and learn more about what happens when human-made space junk, or other objects, hit the Moon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new scar has appeared on the Moon after a leftover piece of a SpaceX rocket smashed into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[85,46,141,145],"class_list":["post-577435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}