Last week’s attempted lunar lander by SpaceIL’s Beresheet spacecraft didn’t quite go as planned. Actually, that’s putting it mildly; it totally crashed. Nevertheless, the privately funded mission accomplished a number of firsts, and returned some lovely images from its descent as an added bonus.
First we were treated to a view from high above the lunar surface — a selfie of sorts — and then, shortly after the crash, a second image emerged that appeared to be the last thing that the lander saw and sent back to Earth before it died.
Now there’s an entirely new wrinkle, with SpaceIL revealing that the lander snapped another picture that nobody had seen before, and this is the actual last thing it saw before slamming into the Moon at a speed of over 300 miles per hour.
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This is the last photo Israel’s Beresheet lunar lander captured before it was smashed into oblivion originally appeared on BGR.com on Fri, 19 Apr 2019 at 11:31:04 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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