{"id":624250,"date":"2026-08-06T21:37:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T21:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/624250\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T21:37:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T21:37:25","slug":"satellite-captures-before-and-after-pictures-of-spacex-rockets-moon-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/624250\/","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 class=\"\">Danuri made multiple passes, taking photos from lunar orbit that were released by the space agency on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The terrain is noticeably darker where the rocket hit and carved out a crater, sending dust and rock everywhere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Korean space officials said Danuri gathered before and after shots.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Nasa expects its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to fly over the crash site next week to view the aftermath.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX launched Danuri from Cape Canaveral in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The company also sent a pair of private lunar landers to the Moon last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">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":624251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[77],"tags":[18,19,1452,17,4738,133,65],"class_list":["post-624250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-international","tag-ireland","tag-report","tag-science","tag-world"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117050726663947564","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}