They figured out where the SpaceX rocket part crashed on the moon. The picture has a little black spot with a white spot and a yellow arrow. It is near the Einstein Crater. The crash was "unintentional but full anticipated" - which sounds disconcerting. The resulting crater was estimated at 60 feet wide and 12 feet deep. With lower gravity on the moon the plume of debris was viewable through telescopes, and was observed for 5 to 10 minutes after the impact.
Scientists can now investigate the lunar dust and debris and the Moon's geology below the surface. There is also the expectation that a detectable seismic event occurred. There aren't any instruments on the moon to record this. That is a gap compared to the previous NASA era of crashing rockets into the moon on purpose. The astronauts placed seismometers on the lunar surface to record the moonquakes and vibrations of the rocket parts they crashed to the Moon.
The articles usually lead to commentary on the amount of junk in space. How much junk space is there? There's 13,000 tonnes of it in the area between the Earth and Moon. AI is now used to help satellite operators avoid collisions, which I gather is a very frequent possibility.
This comes from the Painters' Palette Series where I took pictures of the watercolour palettes and then modified them into collages, etc. Doesn't this look like a Moon Strike?
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