Credit: John Caldwell (York University, Ontario), Alex Storrs (STScI), and NASA/ESA

Hubble's crisp bird's-eye view clearly shows the ray pattern of bright dust ejected out of the crater over one billion years ago, when an asteroid larger than a mile across slammed into the Moon. Hubble can resolve features as small as 600 feet across in the terraced walls of the crater, and the hummock-like blanket of material blasted out by the meteor impact.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9914b/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany

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