Space Daily September 18, 2026 • 00:12

The Moon’s freshest craters are recognisable by bright rays of newly excavated rock and dust, which space weathering gradually darkens—and the new 222-metre McGetchin crater is so fresh that its ejecta still gleams, having formed sometime between 11 Ap - Space Daily

The Moon’s freshest craters are recognisable by bright rays of newly excavated rock and dust, which space weathering gradually darkens—and the new 222-metre McGetchin crater is so fresh that its ejecta still gleams, having formed sometime between 11 Ap - Space Daily

LRO images bracket McGetchin crater's formation to seven weeks in 2024, preserving bright ejecta, complex deposition and a seven-kilometre thermal disturbance.

The bright mark that stopped image specialist Robert Wagner during a routine data check was not the crater itself. It was debris thrown across the Moon when an asteroid or comet fragment struck the s… [+9264 chars]

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