Scientists say they've located the crash site of the Apollo 16 booster on the Moon, 43 years after America's penultimate trip to the lunar surface.

The discovery , a planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, according to ABC News. He located the booster by studying high-resolution images from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, the report added.

This image shows the crash site, as well as the crater left behind when the Apollo 16 booster collided with the Moon.

(NASA photo)

“I did finally find ,” Plescia told Inside Outer Space.“It looks like the others, but its position was much more poorly defined since the tracking was lost prior to impact.”

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That "impact" was a planned seismic test by NASA engineers that involved crashing the booster back into the Moon after the crew successfully lifted off to head back to Earth. Unfortunately, , Red Orbit said, and NASA had no way of knowing where the booster crash-landed.

Apollo 16 was the fifth NASA mission , according to Science Alert. It launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on April 16, 1972 carrying astronauts John Young, Thomas Kenneth "Ken" Mattingly II and Charles Duke.

Young and Duke spent 71 hours on the surface of the Moon performing experiments and , according to io9.

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