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A 19 metre lunar crater made by a natural impact on 17 March 2013.
But spacecraft orbiting the Moon will be able to image the impact crater afterward.
Will we learn anything new?
There have been several previous deliberate crashes onto the Moon, so we know what to expect.
30 metre wide crater on the Moon from the Apollo 13 Saturn IVB upper stage.
Time lapse movie made from 5 hours of images, recorded by DSCOVR.
Biological contamination
So Im not bothered by one more crater being made on the Moon.
It already has something like half a billion craters that are ten meters or more in diameter.
The protocols are in place for reasons both ethical and scientific.
The DSCOVR Falcon 9 was not sterile upon launch, but nor did it carry a biological cargo.
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