New 222-metre lunar crater spotted by LRO image analyst

Robert Wagner of Intuitive Machines found the McGetchin crater on routine Moon-map check, three times larger than any impact site catalogued by the orbiter in the past decade.

Theo Anand

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A routine quality check of Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter images has turned up a 222-metre-wide impact crater on the Moon, the largest fresh crater catalogued by the spacecraft in ten years. ^[2] ^[8]