A routine quality check on a Moon map turned up a bright spot ringed by a dark halo, and it marked a 222-metre crater that did not exist before spring 2024, the largest newly formed crater yet found a

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A Routine Quality Check On A Moon Map Turned Up A Bright Spot Ringed By A Dark Halo, And It Marked A 222-Metre Crater That Did Not Exist Before Spring 2024, The Largest Newly Formed Crater Yet Found A

By Space Daily

Robert Wagner was doing the kind of work that almost never produces anything. On 24 October 2025 he was running a quality check on a global map of the Moon. The job means stacking hundreds of wide-angle frames taken years apart, so that software can ...Read more