NASA discovers huge new crater on the moon #shorts
A huge new crater the size of the Roman Colosseum has been discovered on the moon.
It was spotted by a NASA scientist who was doing a routine scan of a giant Moon map when he spotted a large bright circle that hadn’t been noticed before.
Comparing before and after photos, a research team was able to determine that this crater was formed about two years ago when a rock – possibly as big as a 3- to 6-story building – crashed into the moon’s surface in what is being considered a once-in-a-century event for the moon.
In a study published this week in Science Advances, the scientists say the crater is 728 feet wide and 141 feet deep, the equivalent length of two football fields and the height of three school buses stacked on top of each other end-to-end.
In a second paper published in the same journal, researchers say that the temperature of the 4-mile wide area around the crater is now 16 degrees cooler at night than nearby surroundings. The scientists believe the rocks and dust kicked up by the impact have now settled back to the surface in a less dense way, causing the material to retain less heat at night.
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