Luna 25 lander mission, Russian lander following on from the Soviet-era lunar program Options

[Phil Stooke]

I am starting a new thread for this mission which should fly this year.

Phil

[kenny]

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Luna-25" took the first picture of the lunar surface

An automatic station flying in a circular orbit of an artificial satellite of the Moon took pictures of the lunar surface with television cameras of the STS-L complex.
The picture shows the south polar crater Zeeman on the far side of the Moon. The coordinates of the center of the crater correspond to 75 degrees south latitude and 135 degrees west longitude.
Invisible from Earth, the Zeeman crater is a unique object on the lunar surface and is of great interest to researchers - the height of the shaft surrounding it reaches 8 kilometers above the surface of a relatively flat bottom.
The resulting images significantly complement the currently available information about this crater. The world's first image of the far side of the moon was obtained in October 1959 by the Soviet automatic station "Luna-3".
"Luna-25" carried out observations with the help of ADRON-LR and PmL, ARIES-L instruments. Fluxes of gamma rays and neutrons from the lunar surface are measured, and the parameters of the circumlunar space plasma and gas and dust exosphere in the circumlunar orbit are also obtained.