SPACEX MOON IMPACT OBSERVED BUT FAR FROM IDEAL!

James Kaufman, World News Report today. SpaceX moon impact observed, but far from ideal. It really happened on August 5th at 6.35 UTC time. A dead Falcon 9 upper stage slammed into the moon near Einstein Crater at 5,400 miles per hour. The impact was recorded from lunar orbit and from Earth. First, lunar orbit. South Korea's Danuri spacecraft, the Korean Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter, flew only 350 kilometers, or just over 200 miles, above the impact site. This was post-crash. It secured high-resolution images of a fresh black scar on the lunar surface. Before, images showed no such mark in this location. This happens to be exactly where the dead Falcon 9 upper was forecast to slam into the moon. I'm talking about this little black spot here, scorched earth, and this is the Einstein crater right here. Back on Earth, astronomers struggled to record the crash because it occurred from the brightly lit edge of the moon. The explosion was overwhelmed by glare. However, astronomers at the Instituto de Astrofísica of Spain focused instead on the plume of debris seen here in white, and they caught it. The video shows the ejectite rising into space. The plume is diffused, but massive. Theoretically, pre-impact models predict as much as 800,000 pounds of debris or about 400 tons of moon dust would emerge from the new crater that would be formed. The black area is obviously the lunar disk, and they blocked the glare from the moon's daylight disk using an occulting device that they put together prior to the event. So they believe that this white dust coming across was the big event. You know, I might be able to see it right there and right there. It is circled in red. And they thought that they were very successful in filming the impact and the 800,000 pounds of debris that emerged from the impact crater. Now, I don't see any big deal about either one of these movies, but I will give them a hand for trying. Congratulations to these observers who quote-unquote caught this rare event. Please give us a thumbs up and please share if you will. And always remember, you have a bizarre world. And don't forget to let me know what you think about these two different views of the impact in the comments below.