As part of the backstory of my setting, a wormhole base on the moon catastrophically failed around 500 years ago. The energy released was enough to melt a huge portion (edit: approx size of Mare Imbrium, 700-800 miles across) of the moon's crust and create a new lunar mare. My question is (to which I've only gotten snarky replies on Quora), how long could such a lunar scar be visibly molten? As in, glowing red visibly from earth when in the shadowed part of the moon?

As part of the backstory of my setting, a wormhole base on the Moon catastrophically failed around 500 years ago. The energy released was enough to melt a huge portion (edit: approximately size of Mare Imbrium, 700-800 miles across) of the Moon's crust and create a new lunar mare. My question is (to which I've only gotten snarky replies on Quora), how long could such a lunar scar be visibly molten? As in, glowing red visibly from earth when in the shadowed part of the Moon?

As part of the backstory of my setting, a wormhole base on the moon catastrophically failed around 500 years ago. The energy released was enough to melt a huge portion of the moon's crust and create a new lunar mare. My question is (to which I've only gotten snarky replies on Quora), how long could such a lunar scar be visibly molten? As in, glowing red visibly from earth when in the shadowed part of the moon?

As part of the backstory of my setting, a wormhole base on the moon catastrophically failed around 500 years ago. The energy released was enough to melt a huge portion (edit: approx size of Mare Imbrium, 700-800 miles across) of the moon's crust and create a new lunar mare. My question is (to which I've only gotten snarky replies on Quora), how long could such a lunar scar be visibly molten? As in, glowing red visibly from earth when in the shadowed part of the moon?