Huge Rock Crashes Into Moon Sparks Giant Explosion NASA astronomers have been monitoring the moon for lunar meteor impacts for the past eight years and haven t seen anything this powerful before The moon has a new hole on its surface thanks to a boulder that slammed into it in March creating the biggest explosion scientists have seen on the moon since they started monitoring it The meteorite crashed on March 17 slamming into the lunar surface at a mind boggling 56 000 mph 90 000 kph and creating a new crater 65 feet wide 20 meters The crash sparked a bright flash of light that would have been visible to anyone looking at the moon at the time with the naked eye NASA scientists say On March 17 2013 an object about the size of a small boulder hit the lunar surface in Mare Imbrium Bill Cooke of NASA s Meteoroid Environment Office said in a statement It exploded in a flash nearly 10 times as bright as anything we ve ever seen before

Huge Rock Crashes Into Moon, Sparks Giant Explosion

NASA astronomers have been monitoring the moon for lunar meteor impacts for the past eight years, and haven't seen anything this powerful before.

The moon has a new hole on its surface thanks to a boulder that slammed into it in March, creating the biggest explosion scientists have seen on the moon since they started monitoring it.

The meteorite crashed on March 17, slamming into the lunar surface at a mind-boggling 56,000 mph (90,000 kph) and creating a new crater 65 feet wide (20 meters). The crash sparked a bright flash of light that would have been visible to anyone looking at the moon at the time with the naked eye, NASA scientists say.

"On March 17, 2013, an object about the size of a small boulder hit the lunar surface in Mare Imbrium," Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office said in a statement. "It exploded in a flash nearly 10 times as bright as anything we've ever seen before."