Footage and photos released by the US Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) show that the Russian spacecraft “Luna-25” that failed to land on the South Pole of the Moon left a 10-meter-wide crater when it crashed last month. Due to technical problem.
Luna-25, Russia’s first lunar mission in 47 years, failed to land on August 19 after losing control while falling on the moon.
The incident highlights the decline in the Russian space industry since the fall of the Soviet Union, one of the world’s most powerful space programs.
The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) photographed a new crater on the Moon’s surface and concluded that it “could be the crash site of Luna-25”.
NASA said: “The new crater is about 10 meters in diameter… Because the new crater is near the estimated impact point of the Luna-25 spacecraft, the LRO team concluded that it was most likely the result of that mission, but not from a mission. Natural cause.”
Russian Luna-25 spacecraft falls on the moon after “extraordinary circumstances”.
The Russian space agency Luna-25 crashed into the lunar surface after entering an uncontrolled orbit, the Russian Central Space Agency (Roscosmos) said on Sunday.
After the accident, Moscow said, “a special ministerial committee was formed to investigate the reasons for what happened.”
While many missions to the moon have been unsuccessful, the mission’s failure highlights the decline of Russia’s space capabilities since its glory days.
During the Cold War rivalry, Moscow launched the first satellite, Sputnik 1, into Earth orbit in 1957.
Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space in 1961.
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