A SpaceX rocket is about to crash into the moon—scientists will be watching
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-spacex-rocket-is-about-to-crash-into-the-moon-scientists-will-be-watching/
A SpaceX rocket is about to crash into the moon—scientists will be watching
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-spacex-rocket-is-about-to-crash-into-the-moon-scientists-will-be-watching/
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In before the usual lamenting about “leaving our garbage everywhere” by people who don’t realize how massive space is and how little it compares to waste generated on Earth.
For paywall sufferers, [here’s the original paper on the collision](https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.14625).
It’s pretty easy to read as far as science papers go. They wrote it with amateur astronomers in mind.
(From [Jonathan McDowell’s X/BSky account](https://bsky.app/profile/planet4589.bsky.social/post/3mqzpqpos4k2h).)
Shame we don’t have more crafts on the surface and in orbit that could utilize this crash more. A lot could be learnt from scanning the dust such a crash throws up, and from the seismic sensors on the surface.
Is there any working seismographs on the moon right now?
Space is so big and empty, seems crazy that they’re not able to avoid such a collision