Space Junk Punches a New Hole in the Moon

A rocket hits the moon. It makes a big hole. The rocket is from SpaceX. It goes very fast. It hits near Einstein Crater. People see a light show. Astronomers see sodium and lithium. No one is hurt. So no one is responsible. The rocket is from 2025. It is old. People leave it in space. It goes around the moon. Then it hits the moon.

The hole is a receipt. It shows we leave junk in space. We treat the sky as a dump. We treat the moon as a dump. We take what we want. We leave what we do not want. The moon has no air. The moon has no water. So junk stays forever. We hit the moon many times. Rocket bodies hit the moon many times. We do not learn. We have many satellites. They almost hit each other. We make too much junk.

The author says we do not own the moon. But we act like we do. This is entitlement. It is not carelessness. We know better. But we do it anyway. We can stop this. The fixes are not hard. They are not expensive. We need to be responsible. We need to take care of the moon. We need to clean up our junk. We must not treat the moon as a dump. We must think about the future.

Sources: theguardian.com