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NASA discovers rare new crater on Moon

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UPDATE - follow-up to NASA finds new 'once in a century' Moon crater - RNZ: NASA has discovered a rare new crater on the Moon that scientists are calling a once-in-a-century find. The space agency located this fresh impact site during recent observations of the lunar surface. Experts note that craters of this specific size and type appear only about once every hundred years. The discovery gives researchers fresh data to study recent impact events and the behaviour of space rocks hitting the Moon.

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