The automatic interplanetary station “Luna-25” took the first photograph of the surface of a natural satellite of the Earth. This has been officially announced telegraph channel State Corporation Roscosmos.
Images were obtained using television cameras of the STS-L complex. In particular, the instruments were able to capture the south polar crater Zeeman on the far side of the moon.
“The Zeeman crater, invisible from Earth, is a unique object on the lunar surface and is of great interest to researchers – the height of the shaft surrounding it reaches eight kilometers above the surface of a relatively flat bottom surface,” the report says.
Roscosmos added that thanks to the operation of the interplanetary station, the information already available about the crater in question has been significantly expanded. At the same time, it was filmed for the first time in October 1959 – during the expedition of the Soviet automatic station Luna-3.
Agency representatives also talked about the observations made by Luna-25. The station recorded the parameters of the space plasma around the moon and measured the neutron fluxes emitted from the satellite’s surface.
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