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On 4th March 2022, a spent rocket booster hit the lunar surface near the Hertzsprung crater, which is in the far side of the Moon. The impact created a double crater which is ~28m wide. Terrain Mapping Camera-2 (TMC-2) onboard Chandrayaan-2 imaged the far side of the Moon in April 2022 and identified the impact site.
The above image shows the comparison between the regions which is imaged before impact (21st February 2022) and after impact (3rd April 2022). The yellow arrow mark indicates the new crater formed due to the impact. The spatial resolution of TMC-2 is 5m and the image is zoomed four times.