CJ Handmer (@CJHandmer) is mapping the Moon to sub‑meter resolution (created…

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CJ Handmer (@CJHandmer) is mapping the Moon at sub‑meter resolution and reports a newly formed 17 m crater has upset his work, prompting extra effort. He quotes NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, who links the event to decades‑long practice (Apollo intentional crashes), asserts meteoroids hit hourly and similar impacts occur about every six days, and advocates reusable spacecraft as base infrastructure.

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NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman (@NASAAdmin) points out spent‑booster impacts have decades of precedent, dating to Apollo‑era intentional crashes of spent stages used for seismic research.

Isaacman states meteoroids strike the lunar surface hourly and that impacts comparable to this upper stage occur roughly every six days; he adds future lunar bases will use reusable spacecraft that double as infrastructure.

Given that I'm currently mapping the Moon down to sub meter resolution (in my copious free time) a new 17 m crater is very inconvenient. I'm going to have to prompt especially hard this evening.

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman (@NASAAdmin)

For those interested in a spent booster impacting the lunar surface, this rare occurrence has decades of history, going back to the Apollo era, when NASA intentionally crashed spent stages into the Moon for science and seismic research. The reality is that meteoroids strike the lunar surface hourly, with impacts comparable to this upper stage occurring roughly every six days. The future lunar base will incorporate reusable spacecraft that not only deliver astronauts and payloads, but also become part of the infrastructure itself.

— https://nitter.net/NASAAdmin/status/2085039026545758218#m

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