Nathan Eismont, one of the leading researchers at the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKI), said that the orbit of the Luna-25 automatic station does not allow photographing the landing modules of the US Apollo spacecraft. Confirming the landing of American astronauts on the Earth satellite, transmits DEA News.
“It was possible to get[orbit]to photograph it, but of course it wasn’t chosen that way, but landing where it was needed was the main task. But in principle it is possible,” Eismont said.
As the expert points out, it won’t be possible to take pictures of the Apollo landers in orbit where Luna-25 is currently located, but overall “it’s not a super mission.”
On August 16, the Luna-25 spacecraft successfully appeared into the orbit of the moon.
On August 17, Roscosmos was stationed at the Luna-25 station. made The first photograph of the surface of a natural satellite of the Earth. 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.
Prior to this, it was reported that Russian scientists received. initial data From the instruments of the station “Luna-25” flying to the natural satellite of the earth.
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