{"id":244480,"date":"2026-09-25T01:24:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T06:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/once-in-a-century-impact-nasa-just-found-a-massive-new-crater-on-the-moon"},"modified":"2026-09-25T01:24:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T06:24:22","slug":"once-in-a-century-impact-nasa-just-found-a-massive-new-crater-on-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/once-in-a-century-impact-nasa-just-found-a-massive-new-crater-on-the-moon","title":{"rendered":"Once-in-a-Century Impact: NASA Just Found a Massive New Crater on the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/once-in-a-century-impact-nasa-just-found-a-massive-new-crater-on-the-moon2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>NASA\u2019s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter helped uncover a 728-foot-wide crater that formed on the Moon in 2024 after a rare, powerful impact.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What began as a routine check of lunar mapping data quickly turned into an unexpected discovery. Robert Wagner, a scientist working with NASA\u2019s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), was examining a large map of the Moon when one feature immediately stood out: an unusually bright patch surrounded by a dark halo.<\/p>\n<p>The pattern suggested that material on the lunar surface had recently been disturbed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter helped uncover a 728-foot-wide crater that formed on the Moon in 2024 after a rare, powerful impact. What began as a routine check of lunar mapping data quickly turned into an unexpected discovery. Robert Wagner, a scientist working with NASA\u2019s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), was examining a large map of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1965,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}