The Moon was hit in the spring of 2024 and the news arrived this week
Latest Processing Gap
The instrument saw it almost at once. Nobody looked at what the instrument had seen for more than a year, and the person who finally looked was running a routine check. Nothing was lost by the delay, because nothing about the Moon could have been braked. The shape is worth keeping in mind: an event, an image, a year of unread data, a careful person doing a dull job. The rest of this reading keeps finding it.
Appearances
A paper in Science Advances on 16 September reported a crater about 222 metres wide, formed sometime between 11 April and 22 May 2024, the largest newly formed crater ever identified anywhere in the solar system, from an impact of a scale that researchers, by the Associated Press's account, estimate at once every 132 years. The window comes from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's own before-and-after images, so the record existed by late May 2024. The Associated Press says the images were not id ...
The instrument saw it almost at once. Nobody looked at what the instrument had seen for more than a year, and the person who finally looked was running a routine check. Nothing was lost by the delay, because nothing about the Moon could have been braked. The shape is worth keeping in mind: an event, an image, a year of unread data, a careful person doing a dull job. The rest of this reading keeps finding it.