A Jolt to the Camera
![Wild back-and-forth lines through a lunar surface image](https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/131_lro_impact.jpg?w=4096&format=jpeg)
NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University
October 20, 2017
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The first wild back-and-forth line records the moment on October 13, 2014 when the left Narrow Angle Camera's radiator on NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter was struck by a meteoroid, a small natural object in space.