Space Telescope Science Institute resurfaces a 1999 Hubble observation of the Moon crater Copernicus, highlighting the ray pattern of dust ejected by an ancient impact.
While we wait for NASA’s Artemis II launch, we looked back to 1999, when Hubble observed the Moon’s impact crater Copernicus.
Shown is the ray pattern of dust ejected out of the crater when an asteroid slammed into the Moon one billion years ago
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