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NASA’s Lunar Orbit Reconnaissance Vehicle (LRO) has imaged a new crater on the moon’s surface; this is likely the result of the crash of the Russian interplanetary station
As reported by Ukrinform, this was reported in a material on NASA’s website.
On August 21, the Russian space agency “Roscosmos” published the coordinates of the station’s possible collision point with the lunar surface. The next day, NASA sent the LRO team to turn on the camera on site.
On August 24, the apparatus of the American agency took several photos of the stated location, which the LRO team compared with the Roscosmos photos taken before the Luna-25 collision.
As a result, a new small crater was discovered on the lunar surface.
“Since this new crater is close to Luna 25’s predicted impact point, the LRO team concludes that it is most likely the result of a failed mission rather than a natural impact,” NASA said.
The detected crater is about 10 meters in diameter and is located at a negative altitude of -360 meters below the Moon’s surface. The Russian station’s point of contact with the Moon was on the steep inner rim of Ponteculant G crater, about 400 kilometers from the planned landing point of Luna-25.
As reported by Ukrinform, the Russian automatic interplanetary station “Luna-25” ceased to exist due to a collision with the lunar surface.
Automatic station “Luna-25” is the first lunar mission in the modern history of Russia. The previous station “Luna-24” was launched by the USSR in 1976. On August 19, “Luna-25” began to move into pre-landing orbit.
Photo: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Arizona State University
Source: Ukrinform
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