The image of NASA reveals where the condemned lunar lander of Israel crashed into the moon

A month after SpaceIL, an Israeli non-profit organization, crashed its moon landing gear on the surface of the moon, NASA said it thought it had spotted the site of the impact.

Israel attempted to become the first country to land a satellite on the moon on April 11. But things quickly deteriorated soon after the start of the Beresheet LG descent.

The control of the mission was forced to reset the main engine when it was about ten kilometers from the surface, but it finally failed to restart everything. unable to slow down, Beresheet collapsed and broke up.

A new image captured by NASA's Orbiter Lunar Reconnaissance (LRO) on April 22 shows a new impact site on a region of the moon called the Sea of ​​Serenity probably created by the high-speed collision.

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A series of "before" images of the region taken during the last decade and up to 16 days before the crash revealed a new feature that corresponds to what Beresheet would have created. NASA used a 2016 photo (above) for comparison because of the lighting conditions of that day.

LRO was about 90 km above the surface when he captured the image with his camera set.

From this distance, it is impossible to determine if a crater formed or not as a result of the collision, but a white impact halo is clearly visible where it did not exist before.

"It's possible that the crater is too small to appear on the photos," says NASA.

& # 39; Another possibility is that Beresheet formed a small recess instead of a crater, given its low angle of approach (about 8.4 degrees relative to the surface), its light weight (compared to a dense meteoroid of the same size) and its low speed (again). , compared to a meteoroid of the same size; Beresheet's speed was always higher than that of most fastballs). & # 39;

The radio tracking allowed scientists to locate the landing site just a few kilometers away, according to the space agency.

This, added to a series of "before" images of the region of the last decade and as recently as 16 days before the crash, revealed a new feature that corresponds to what Beresheet would have created given its size and speed.

SpaceIL hoped to complete the Beresheet landing on the moon and make Israel the fourth country to succeed the feat, behind the United States, Russia and China.

Although it was unable to achieve this goal, the mission still makes Israel only the seventh country to have ever occupied each lunar orbit.

Shortly after the crash, Israel announced plans to carry out another mission in the coming years.

SpaceIL's Beresheet was part of a "shared responsibility" with Elon Musk's SpaceX, as the mission could not afford its own rocket.

After traveling more than 95.5 km (3.4 million miles) around the Earth and moving closer to the moon, the satellite finally rocked into the moon's elliptical orbit on April 4 .

The historic attempt began shortly after 3 pm (ET) and as part of an event broadcast live and hosted by Contact Global Broadcasting Services.