The Moon’s freshest craters are recognisable by bright rays of newly excavated rock and dust, which space weathering gradually darkens—and the new 222-metre McGetchin crater is so fresh that its ejecta still gleams, having formed sometime between 11 April and 22 May 2024.

LRO images bracket McGetchin crater's formation to seven weeks in 2024, preserving bright ejecta, complex deposition and a seven-kilometre thermal disturbance. The post The Moon’s freshest craters are recognisable by bright rays of newly excavated rock and dust, which space weathering gradually darkens—and the new 222-metre McGetchin crater is so fresh that its ejecta still gleams, having formed sometime between 11 April and 22 May 2024. appeared first on Space Daily .