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Space.com - Lunar Lost & Found: The Search forn Old Spacecraft
One look at Earth's Moon is all it takes. It has been mussed up by scads of incoming celestial objects that produced lots of craters. But our Moon has also been on the receiving end of artificial impacts over the last few decades. Moon probes and leftover rocket stages have contributed to the crater population—albeit too small to see from our planet. Robotic lunar landers from the United States and the former Soviet Union dot the Moon too.
Add in hardware castaways from human adventurers who made their way to the Moon from 1969 through 1972 as part of NASA's Apollo program, and you've got a lot of junk on the Moon.
Pinpointing old spacecraft and artificial impact craters is not only a curatorial courtesy, but also can generate important science.