NASA spacecraft around the moon photographs the crash site of a Japanese company's lunar lander

A NASA spacecraft astir the satellite has photographed the clang tract of a Japanese company's lunar lander

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A NASA spacecraft astir the satellite has photographed the crash site of a Japanese company’s lunar lander.

NASA released the pictures Friday, 2 weeks aft ispace’s lander slammed into the moon.

The images amusement a acheronian smudge wherever the lander, named Resilience, and its mini rover crashed into Mare Frigoris oregon Sea of Cold, a volcanic portion successful the moon’s acold north. A faint halo astir the country was formed by the lunar ungraded kicked up by the impact.

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured the country past week.

The clang was the 2nd nonaccomplishment successful 2 years for Tokyo-based ispace. Company officials program to clasp a quality league adjacent week to explicate what doomed the latest mission, launched from Cape Canaveral successful January.

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