NASA images reveal crater left by SpaceX rocket’s Moon crash

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By AFP | Posted by TOE NASA on Tuesday released new images of the crater caused by a SpaceX rocket slamming into the Moon earlier this month.  The photographs were captured by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) between August 11 and 12, and show the impact formed by a SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage striking the Moon’s surface on August 5. Scientists from the US space agency determined the crater was 60-feet-wide (18 meters), and less than 10 feet deep, based on the length of its shadow. The Falcon 9 launched in January 2025 carrying Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost 1 lunar lander, a private mission that made a soft landing on the Moon. These weren’t the first images of the crash site. The Korean space agency published pictures on August 6 that were taken a day earlier by Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO), also known as Danuri. The LRO, in service since 2009, circles the Moon from pole to pole every two hours while the Moon rot...
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Somali troops push militiamen out of Baidoa after fierce fighting

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By Reuters and Posted by TOE

 Somali federal troops drove opposition forces out of one of the country’s biggest cities, Baidoa, on Monday, following heavy clashes ‌that left many people dead, residents told Reuters.

Baidoa, which is home to hundreds ‌of thousands of people displaced by conflict and hunger in other areas, was shaken by hours of ​fighting between the federal soldiers and opposition forces loyal to the former president of South West state, Abdiaziz Hassan Mohamed Laftagareen.

Residents said the clashes in the city centre on Monday were the fiercest since March, when federal forces seized control of Baidoa after Laftagareen’s administration ‌said it was severing ties ⁠with the federal government. Laftagareen then resigned from office.

Already struggling to contain a two-decade-old insurgency by the al Shabaab militant group and ⁠stave off famine, the federal government has been facing growing armed resistance from state governments.

State authorities have rejected Mogadishu’s influence over state elections and rejected constitutional changes they say concentrate power ​in ​the hands of the executive.

Somalia’s defence ministry said ​in a statement that troops in ‌Baidoa had come under attack before dawn by fighters using vehicles laden with explosives. It said its forces had driven the assailants out of Baidoa, killing about 30 of them.

Videos posted on social media and verified by Reuters showed federal soldiers firing from the back of an armoured vehicle and people carrying injured civilians through the streets.

Four ‌Baidoa residents said federal troops had driven the ​opposition fighters out of town, and reported seeing ​dead bodies.

“I saw 10 dead people ​including four civilians and six soldiers from both groups,” local elder ‌Farah Ibrahim told Reuters.

Laftagareen’s camp, which earlier ​in the morning said ​on Facebook that its forces had captured the city centre, could not be immediately reached for comment.

Baidoa faces a dire humanitarian crisis, with one in four ​children at its displacement ‌sites severely malnourished, according to a July survey by the French medical charity ​Medecins Sans Frontieres.



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