Emily Lakdawalla • Jul 27, 2010
New crater found in LROC image from the Moon
This news is no surprise, but I think it's the first such discovery I've heard of: the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) team has identified a new crater on the Moon, one that wasn't there when Apollo 15 flew over, and which doesn't correspond to any known human artifact impact site. Therefore it's a fresh crater that's formed in the last 38 years. And since the comparison slide they posted with this item has a filename including the string "candidate3," I'm sure there are others yet to be announced!
Here's the new crater:
![New impact crater on the Moon found in LROC image](https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assets/pictures/_350x350_crop_center-center_line/20150825_M108971316L_thumba_serendipityThumb.png 350w)
And here's the context image:
![Comparison of Apollo 15 to LROC images of the new crater](https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assets/pictures/_768x576_crop_center-center_82_line/9392/20150825_release_draft_candidate3_100724_comparison.jpg 768w, https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assets/pictures/_576x432_crop_center-center_82_line/9392/20150825_release_draft_candidate3_100724_comparison.jpg 576w)
This is real needle-in-a-haystack work, so congratulations to whomever it was who spotted it -- and the other two "candidates" there must be besides this one!
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