admin Using a camera designed to monitor the moon, Daichi Fujii, curator of the Hiratsuka City Museum, captured the image at 20:14:30 8 Japan Standard Time on February 23 (7:14 a.m. Eastern Standard Time, Greenwich Mean Time). 11:14) recorded the events.
The event, likely a meteorite impact, occurred near the Iderer L crater, just northwest of Pitiscus crater.
Meteors have an average velocity of about 30,000 miles per hour (48,280 km/h), or 8.3 miles per second (13.4 km/s). A high-velocity impact produces intense heat, creating a crater with a bright visible flash.
If the lunar impact is large enough and occurs in the region facing the Earth during the lunar night, it can be seen from Earth, as photographed above.
The newly formed crater, which could be about 10 meters (39 feet) in diameter, could be imaged by NASA’s lunar reconnaissance vehicles and India’s Chandrayaan-2 lunar probe, Fujii said. Told.
There are meteor strikes on Earth every day, but most of them burn up completely when they hit the atmosphere. But because the moon’s exosphere is thin, meteors that normally can’t reach the Earth’s surface hit the moon, creating the familiar crater look. These rocks constantly impact the lunar surface, sometimes breaking it down into fine particles and lunar soil.
Recording these events has scientific value and helps scientists learn more about the frequency of impacts on the Moon. This knowledge is especially important as the United States and other nations prepare to send astronauts to the moon.
