A piece of human machinery, long adrift in lunar orbit after completing its intended purpose, has left a permanent mark on the moon's ancient surface — and a South Korean spacecraft was there to witness it. The Danuri orbiter, already circling the moon on its own scientific mission, captured before-and-after images of the crater formed when a SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage struck the lunar terrain, revealing a patch of darker, freshly excavated ground. The event is a quiet but consequential reminder that the age of human reach now extends beyond Earth's atmosphere, and that our debris, like our a