This Is the Stunning Picture Israel’s Lunar Lander Took Right Before It Crashed

This Is the Stunning Picture Israel’s Lunar Lander Took Right Before It Crashed

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This is reportedly the last picture that Israel’s Beresheet spacecraft sent back to Earth before it crashed into the Moon at 3:23 PM ET.

When the spacecraft was captured by the Moon’s gravity on April 4, Israel became the seventh nation to insert a probe into lunar orbit. On Thursday, it became the fifth nation to send a robot to the Moon’s surface, though it was not the soft touchdown the mission leaders had hoped for.