EditorialRussian shelling has gouged countless craters in the earth, destroying much of the landscape in southern Ukraine, in September 2022. (Jim Huylebroek/The New York Times)
EditorialAn image taken by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter shows fractures on the Moon, seen in the floors of ancient, flat-floored highlands craters. (NASA via The New York Times) — EDITORIAL USE ONLY —
EditorialSome of the shell craters that pit the Saltivka neighborhood, just 20 miles from the Russian border, on the outskirts of Kharkiv, Ukraine, July 16, 2022. (Emile Ducke/The New York Times)
EditorialA satellite image provided by NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University with an arrow pointing to a double crater, roughly 28 meters wide, on the surface of the moon that is the crash site of a forgotten rocket stage that struck the far side of the moon in March of 2022. (NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University via The New York Times)
EditorialA satellite image provided by NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University with an arrow pointing to a double crater, roughly 28 meters wide, on the surface of the moon that is the crash site of a forgotten rocket stage that struck the far side of the moon in March of 2022. (NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University via The New York Times)
EditorialOleksandr Chaplik, 55, bails feed for cattle at his farm near Sievierodonetsk, Ukraine, where Russian and Ukrainian troops have been battling for control in heavy street fighting in recent days, June 3, 2022. (Finbarr O'Reilly/The New York Times)
EditorialAn image provided by NASA shows a visualization, using data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, of the Shackleton crater at the moon’s south pole. (NASA Scientific Visualization Studio via The New York Times)
EditorialTerrain outside the village of Usun-Kyuyol, Russia, where the loss of permafrost and shifting subterranean temperatures has left an obstacle course of hummocks and craters, July 11, 2019. (Emile Ducke/The New York Times)