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  5. Moon: Images from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter show McGetchin Crater

Moon: Images from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter show McGetchin Crater

Sep 16, 2026

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  • A global view of the Moon made by stitching together hundreds of images from the Wide-Angle Camera aboard NASA s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). Robert Wagner, image processing specialist for LRO, made this map using two sets of mages taken several years apart. He used a software designed to highlight any changes between the two sets. Anything that stayed the same turned gray; anything different showed up as bright or dark patches. A black arrow just left of center points to McGetchin crater. Officially named McGetchin after pioneering lunar scientist Tom McGetchin, the crater formed on the Moon s eastern edge sometime between April 11 and May 22, 2024, after a comet or asteroid the size of a three- to six-story building hit the surface WAX2026091604 NASA

    A global view of the Moon made by stitching together hundreds of images from the Wide-Angle Camera aboard NASA s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). Robert Wagner, image processing specialist for LRO, made this map using two sets of mages taken several years apart. He used a software designed to highlight any changes between the two sets. Anything that stayed the same turned gray; anything different showed up as bright or dark patches. A black arrow just left of center points to McGetchin crater. Officially named McGetchin after pioneering lunar scientist Tom McGetchin, the crater formed on the Moon s eastern edge sometime between April 11 and May 22, 2024, after a comet or asteroid the size of a three- to six-story building hit the surface WAX2026091604 NASA

  • A zoomed-in view of McGetchin crater, circled on the left, next to a before image on the right. The panel on the left is made from images captured by NASA s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Wide-Angle Camera in summer 2025; the right panel was made from images taken in spring 2011. The white spot is not the crater itself, but rather material flung out of the crater, which formed when a rock, possibly this size of a three- to six?story building, crashed into the Moon between April 11 and May 22, 2024 – a once-in-a-century event, as scientists reported on Sept. 15, 2026, in a pair of papers in Science Advances. The area shown in the images is 38 miles wide. Officially named McGetchin after pioneering lunar scientist Tom McGetchin, the crater fo WAX2026091603 NASA

    A zoomed-in view of McGetchin crater, circled on the left, next to a before image on the right. The panel on the left is made from images captured by NASA s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Wide-Angle Camera in summer 2025; the right panel was made from images taken in spring 2011. The white spot is not the crater itself, but rather material flung out of the crater, which formed when a rock, possibly this size of a three- to six?story building, crashed into the Moon between April 11 and May 22, 2024 – a once-in-a-century event, as scientists reported on Sept. 15, 2026, in a pair of papers in Science Advances. The area shown in the images is 38 miles wide. Officially named McGetchin after pioneering lunar scientist Tom McGetchin, the crater fo WAX2026091603 NASA

  • An overhead, close-up view of McGetchin crater that was taken on December 5, 2025, by NASA s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Narrow-Angle Camera. The image covers an area that 3 4 mile wide. Officially named McGetchin after pioneering lunar scientist Tom McGetchin, the crater formed on the Moon s eastern edge sometime between April 11 and May 22, 2024, after a comet or asteroid the size of a three- to six-story building hit the surface. WAX2026091602 NASA

    An overhead, close-up view of McGetchin crater that was taken on December 5, 2025, by NASA s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Narrow-Angle Camera. The image covers an area that 3 4 mile wide. Officially named McGetchin after pioneering lunar scientist Tom McGetchin, the crater formed on the Moon s eastern edge sometime between April 11 and May 22, 2024, after a comet or asteroid the size of a three- to six-story building hit the surface. WAX2026091602 NASA

  • This view from the side (55º away from straight down) towards the east, covers an area of the Moon that s about 1.5 miles wide. It was taken by NASA s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Narrow-Angle Camera on March 3, 2026. Officially named McGetchin after pioneering lunar scientist Tom McGetchin, the crater formed on the Moon s eastern edge sometime between April 11 and May 22, 2024, after a comet or asteroid the size of a three- to six-story building hit the surface. WAX2026091601 NASA

    This view from the side (55º away from straight down) towards the east, covers an area of the Moon that s about 1.5 miles wide. It was taken by NASA s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Narrow-Angle Camera on March 3, 2026. Officially named McGetchin after pioneering lunar scientist Tom McGetchin, the crater formed on the Moon s eastern edge sometime between April 11 and May 22, 2024, after a comet or asteroid the size of a three- to six-story building hit the surface. WAX2026091601 NASA

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