NASA baffled after 'mystery spacecraft' smashes into the Moon leaving odd crater
dailystar.co.ukMoon earlier this year, leaving a mysterious double crater – and NASA scientists have been unable to work out where it came from.The object has been tracked through space since 2015, but no country has admitted to launching it.On March 4 this year, whatever it was crash-landed on the lunar surface.
And now new images from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter show that the impact was unlike anything that has been seen before.Spacecraft from Earth generally have a heavy engine at one end and a fuel tank – which would be lighter by the time it reached the Moon – at the other.The unusual double crater implies that whatever hit the Moon in March had two heavy components.READ MORE: 'Significant uncertainties' where Chinese rocket will crash-land on Earth“Surprisingly, the crater is actually two craters, an eastern one (18m diameter) superimposed on a western one (16m diameter),” scientists from NASA and Arizona State University wrote.“The double crater was unexpected and may indicate that the body had large masses at each end.
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