NASA’s orbiter snapped crisp images of where a private spacecraft crashed, revealing telltale marks of disturbed lunar soil.

Nasa's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has captured images of the crash site of ispace's lunar lander, Resilience, which ...

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has imaged the crash site of Resilience, a moon lander built and operated by the ...

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has spotted the crash site of Japan's Resilience moon lander. The ispace lander aimed for ...

This image provided by NASA shows an annotation indicating the impact site for ispace's Resilience lunar lander, seen by the ...

NASA, for its part, had already spotted the wreckage. About a week after the crash, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter passed ...

This image provided by NASA shows an annotation indicating the impact site for ispace's Resilience lunar lander, seen by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera on June 11, 2025. (NASA/Goddard ...

This image provided by NASA shows an annotation indicating the impact site for ispace’s Resilience lunar lander, seen by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera on June 11, 2025.

By comparison, the main camera on NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has a resolution of 50 centimeters per pixel.

The Chandrayaan-2 orbiter is equipped with a 0.25-meter Orbiter High Resolution Camera (OHRC) which offers views of the Moon ...