Dr. Kelsey Young

You know, impact flashes, looking for impact flashes.

And what those are is, you know, literally like very small particles impacting the lunar surface.

And it literally creates like an extremely transient, like really, really quick, very bright flash.

And when you say small particles, how small?

Like centimeters to inches.

Really?

Well, in this case, they were.

I mean, because we can kind of back that out from the descriptions the crew gave that you all heard.

And you can have bigger impacts as well.

But we think these were pretty small.

Is that why it was so cool?

Yes, you hit the nail exactly on the head of my surprised face.

So, you know, we had conversations, certainly, of course, for months and months on our team of like, are we going to see any?

And so, of course, team members had different opinions.

predictions, you know, for if we would see any and if so, how many.

I did not.

So what you saw was reflective of my like complete shock that they saw any and that they saw multiple.

A few reasons.

First of all, it helps us characterize the modern lunar environment, right?

So, like, what is happening at the surface of the moon.