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0003-Artemis_One.jpgLook! The Moon, again...109 visiteOn Nov. 20, 2022, such as the fifth day of the 25,5-day Artemis I mission, a camera mounted on the tip of one of Orion’s solar array wings captured this footage of the Spacecraft and the Moon as it continued to grow nearer to our neighbor. The Spacecraft entered the lunar sphere of influence at 2:09 p.m. EST, making the Moon, instead of Earth, the main gravitational force acting on it. Orion completed its first fly-by on the morning of Nov. 21, 2022.MareKromiumNov 22, 2022
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Luna17_Lander_1.jpgLuna 17 Lander from atop (EDM)123 visitenessun commentoMareKromiumOtt 09, 2022
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Lunokhod_2_Rover-3.jpgNever forgotten! The last image from Lunokhod 2 (EDM)102 visiteThe two Lunokhods showed the value of robotic explorers on the Surface of another World. It would have taken another 24 years before the next robotic rover, Sojourner, drove on another World - this time Mars.
The LROC Science Operations Center received an unexpected Visitor: Ruslan Kuzmin. He was one of the scientists who had actually participated in the Lunokhod missions! We were able to show him LROC pictures of the hardware on the Surface and he was gracious enough to write down some of his thoughts upon seeing his "Old Friends".
"Thank you very much for showing me the excellent LROC images of the Lander platform from Luna-21, as well as the robotic Lunar Rover “Lunokhod-2” in its last and eternal parking place after a 37-Km, 4 month journey of research. To see the images with Lunokhod-2 and its tracks on the Lunar Surface is a very special feeling for me. In the time of the Lunokhod-2 operation, I was a young planetologist who was participating in the mission, and I analyzed the images received by the Rover’s TV- cameras. In fact, this was the first successful mission in which I was involved. It was many years ago (52 now!) when the Lunokhod-2 traveled for four months within the Crater Le-Monier at the eastern edge of the Mare Serenitatis.
While looking at LROC images of the Lunokhod-2 rover, I felt a deep interior excitement due to the welled up memories of the earliest “pages” of my science career. It is very exciting that the Lunokhod-2, as well as many other American and Soviet Union Landers, which operated many tens of years ago, now might be imaged by LROC so clearly and viewed by millions of people around the world. The LRO camera is without any doubt a really fantastic instrument that simultaneously brings our eyes close to the Lunar Surface, while reminding us of pioneering results from Historical Missions".MareKromiumOtt 09, 2022
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Luna17_Lander.jpgLuna 17 Lander from atop (small)75 visiteAn amazing spacecraft gently settled to the lunar surface on 17 November 1970. It carried the first successful robotic lunar rover -- Lunokhod 1. For the next ten months the rover was driven by operators in the Soviet Union, with the total distance traveled exceeding 10 km. For comparison, in six years of operation the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has traveled about 12 km.
After landing, the rover drove down a ramp onto the lunar surface and tested its eight wheels. The rover was driven by solar power during the day; at night it parked and relied on thermal energy from a polonium-210 radioisotope heater to survive the cold (-150°C).
The intrepid rover sent back valuable data concerning the composition of the regolith (soil), close up views of the local topography, and important engineering measurements of the regolith.
Note: Soviet Robotic Lander Luna 17 still sitting on Mare Imbrium where it delivered the Lunokhod 1 Rover in November 1970. MareKromiumOtt 09, 2022
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Lunokhod_2_Rover-00.jpgLunokhod Rover 1 from atop 75 visiteLunokhod 1 Rover in its final parking spot.MareKromiumOtt 09, 2022
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Lunokhod_2_Rover.jpgLook at that! The Lunokhod 2 Rover, from LRO122 visiteLunokhod 2 Rover, note its tracks tracing its route southward. The enlargement is specially stretched to show the form of the Rover, the brighest area may be the open clamshell lid, ~400 meters wide.MareKromiumOtt 09, 2022
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Lunokhod_2_Rover-2.jpgNever forgotten! The last image from Lunokhod 2 (small)80 visitenessun commentoMareKromiumOtt 09, 2022
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Luna-20.jpgThe "Dark Side of the Moon": Hills in the distance133 visitenessun commentoMareKromiumOtt 04, 2022
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Luna-19.jpgThe "Dark Side of the Moon": Antenna MAST124 visitenessun commentoMareKromiumOtt 04, 2022
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Luna-18.jpgThe "Dark Side of the Moon": on the edge...102 visitenessun commentoMareKromiumOtt 04, 2022
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Luna-17.jpgThe "Dark Side of the Moon": Horizon94 visitenessun commentoMareKromiumOtt 04, 2022
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Luna-15.jpgThe "Dark Side of the Moon": Surface and small Craters84 visitenessun commentoMareKromiumOtt 04, 2022
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