NASA Will Attempt to Observe Rocket Part’s Lunar Impact

Per NASA News, a Falcon 9 upper stage from a lunar lander deployment in January twenty twenty-five is expected to impact the Moon on Wednesday near the Einstein and Bell craters. The impact poses no threat to Earth and won't be visible to the naked eye from here. NASA and SpaceX are tracking the upper stage, whose trajectory was altered by solar activity and gravitational forces. NASA will observe the impact in real time using ground-based telescopes and space-based assets—the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and South Korea's ShadowCam. The impact should carve out a crater roughly sixty feet wide and twelve feet deep, and observations of the impact will help scientists understand how debris behaves on the lunar surface, refining models for future moon exploration.

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