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In a rare event, the moon got a massive new crater

The crater is 225 meters wide, a size expected only once every 139 years

The nearside of the full moon

The moon has been collecting craters for billions of years. Now there's a new one.

Lick Observatory

By Lisa Grossman

A once-in-a-century crater formed on the moon right under our noses. A routine search of images from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter camera found a fresh crater as wide as two American football fields, planetary scientist Mark Robinson reported March 17 at the Lunar and Planetary Sciences Meeting in The Woodlands, Texas.