{"id":561473,"date":"2026-08-07T05:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T05:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/561473\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T05:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T05:06:09","slug":"satellite-captures-before-and-after-views-of-rockets-crash-into-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/561473\/","title":{"rendered":"Satellite captures before and after views of rocket&#8217;s crash into moon"},"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&#8217;s Danuri spacecraft flew over the impact site soon after the Falcon 9 upper stage <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/08\/06\/wayward-spacex-rocket-slammed-into-the-moon-as-predicted-scientists-say\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">inadvertently ploughed into the moon<\/a>. Danuri made multiple passes, snapping photos from lunar orbit that were released by the space agency Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The terrain is noticeably darker where the rocket hit and carved out a crater, sending dust and rock everywhere. 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&#8217;s 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. The upper stage from that launch is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/08\/01\/discarded-spacex-rocket-on-high-speed-collision-course-with-the-moon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">what crashed into the moon this week<\/a> at 8700km\/h, 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":561474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[111,139,69,147,392,145],"class_list":["post-561473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-space","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}