You can see the LRO images (before and after) at the link in the previous post. What did OHRC show us? Here is the image. The impact feature is the double crater exactly in the middle of this tiny detail of a very large image. Comparison shows it is more detailed than the LRO image. I wouldn't say it changes our understanding, but it's nice to see it.

I ran out of landers, but I will look at a few upcoming landings next.
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In 2022 an object was found on course to hit the Moon. LRO imaged the crater it made:

https://lroc.im-ldi.com/images/1261

It was almost certainly the upper stage of the rocket used to launch Chang'e 5 T-1. Chang'e 5 was China's first sample return mission, but Chang'e 5 T-1 was a flight to test the return capsule in 2014. LRO images showed a double crater, suggesting it had a mass at both ends (engines and a payload support structure, presumably).
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Intuitive Machines have not yet released their analysis of the landing, but this OHRC image has to be a major contribution to that analysis. I have never seen anything like this before but we don't have images like this for most landings. It would be great to have this for Luna 23, for instance, and Surveyors 3 and 5 and many crash sites.

You can look for OHRC images here - you need to register.
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LRO imaged the Athena landing site:

https://lroc.im-ldi.com/images/1409

but again the most impressive and informative images were taken by India's Chandrayaan 2 orbiter. Its Orbiter High Resolution Camera (OHRC) took an image and Indian space enthusiast Chandra Tungathurthi found it in the released data:

https://twitter.com/this_is_tckb/status/1953355239546921281

I made this map using the image and that Yaoki image, hinting at what happened during the final approach.
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