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Impact on the Moon

Apollo 15's rocket stage

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The spent Saturn V third stage, crashed on purpose to ring the Moon for the seismometers.

At the Moon.

Measured

Hit
1971
Agency
NASA
Where
1.290°S, 11.825°W on the Moon

How far, from the Earth

403,000 km. To cross it:

  • Light1.34 seconds
  • Voyager 1's speed6 hours 38 minutes
  • Driving at 100 km/h5.52 months

Voyager 1 at the speed it moved outward over the year to 2026-10-25 (JPL Horizons). Driving: nonstop, never refuelling.

Facts

  • Status: crater left by its impact.

Where this comes from

  • LROC Coordinates of Lunar Anthropogenic Features, 28 July 2016 (Wagner et al., Icarus 283:92–103): measured from LRO images, good to metres. Year from NSSDCA.
  • Apollo sites: NSSDCA (NASA) from LRO images, Wagner et al. 2017. Other Moon sites: LROC, Wagner et al. 2017. Chang'e sites: LROC, NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University. Mars: NASA/JPL-Caltech; InSight: Golombek et al. 2020.

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