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March 19, 2015

NASA's LRO Spacecraft Finds March 17, 2013 Impact Crater and More
Tempe AZ (SPX) Mar 19, 2015
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) acquired images of the lunar surface before and after the largest recorded explosion occurred on the surface. On March 17, 2013, an object the size of a small boulder hit the surface in Mare Imbrium and exploded in a flash of light nearly 10 times as bright as anything ever recorded before. This bright flash was recorded by researchers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville with coordinates 20.6 N, 336.1 E. The Lunar Reconnaissance Came ... read more

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