Sure enough, a rocket wreck hit the far side of the moon on March 6, producing a white flash, american experts want to see it very much, planning to send NASA's lunar reconnaissance orbiter to the back of the moon to take pictures, to see what the result is, has the rocket wreckage shattered? How big a crater was built? Can you still confirm the identity of the rocket?
Many years ago, Bill Gray, an amateur astronomer from Maine, discovered a rocket wreckage in low-Earth orbit that was flying in a very chaotic orbit, and in February 2022, Bill Gray discovered that the rocket wreckage began to approach the moon and would hit the far side of the moon in early March.
Initially, Bill Gray believed the rocket wreckage came from SpaceX's old Falcon 9 rocket, which in 2015 carried out a special mission to send an official U.S. Space Climate Observation Satellite (DSCOVR) to L1 Lagrange point 1.5 million kilometers away.
If the space climate observation satellite wants to fly to the distant L1 Lagrangge point, the Falcon 9 rocket thruster will erupt for much longer than ordinary satellite launches.
Low-orbit satellite launch, rocket engine eruption may only take 8 minutes, but the launch of the spacecraft flying to the L1 Lagrange point, the arrow engine eruption may take 20 minutes, the rocket's second stage was thrown into a very far Earth orbit, the past 7 years, has been wandering in an unstable orbit, and now it has only hit the back of the moon.
Later, Bill Gray may have found something wrong, saying that the rocket wreckage is not a Falcon 9 rocket, but a Chinese Long March 3 C rocket, Bill Gray believes that on October 24, 2014, China launched the Chang'e 5-T1 mission with the Long March 3 C rocket, and the Chang'e 5-T1 mission was a test launch before the Chang'e 5 mission.
But in fact, this is also a nonsense, because our space agency tracked the chang'e 5-T1 mission rocket, and in October 2015, the rocket wreckage returned to the atmosphere, was burned into dust, and nothing was left, so this rocket is definitely not the chang'e 5-T1 mission rocket wreckage.
Which country did this rocket wreck come from? There is no point in discussing the issue anymore, and now the rocket wreckage has hit Hertzsprung Crater on the far side of the moon, a crater with a diameter of nearly 600 km, and the impact would create a crater of 10 meters or more.
How big are the impact craters? When the lunar reconnaissance orbiter came to the scene in mid-March to take pictures, the answer was solved, of course, many people want to know, what the scene was like, and whether the rocket debris was shattered. There must be fragments left.
But it is impossible to confirm the identity of the rocket by relying on the photos of the lunar reconnaissance orbiter, because the maximum resolution of the lunar reconnaissance orbiter is at least 0.3 meters or more, and it is certainly impossible to see the symbols and letters on the debris, unless someone is sent to see, which is impossible.
If the rocket debris is hitting the moon at a suitable angle by the lunar reconnaissance orbiter, then the white light generated on the impact can be seen. In fact, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter went to the site not only to take pictures, but also to seize this good opportunity to explore the impact crater and understand the material composition of the impact crater.
By studying the differences in color and distribution of the material ejected from the impact crater, scientists can uncover some of the secrets of the far side of the moon.
China's Chang'e 4 and Yutu 2 lunar rovers are also on the far side of the moon, will they be affected by the impact? The answer is no, because China's Chang'e 4 landed at Von Carmen Crater in the Aitken Basin at the south pole on the far side of the moon, while Hertzsprung Crater, on the far side of the moon near the North Pole, is thousands of kilometers away from Hertzsprung Crater. Interesting and informative scientific content, please pay attention to the only WeChat public account: Interesting Exploration