Russia Space Agency announces first results produced by Luna 25
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Roscosmos, Russia's national space agency, announced on Saturday that the Russian spacecraft on a mission to the south pole of the moon has generated its initial results, which are currently being analysed.
The moon's Zeeman crater was also captured on camera by the Luna-25 spacecraft, which the agency also released. Luna-25 will settle on the south pole of the moon on Monday after spending five days orbiting the planet's only natural satellite, Reuters reported.
According to the agency, the Zeeman crater is the third-deepest in the southern hemisphere of the moon, measuring 190 km in diameter and 8 km in depth.
According to Roscosmos, the information it has so far received has helped to shed light on the chemical components of lunar soil and will make it easier for instruments intended to research the moon's near-surface to function.
It added that its equipment had registered "the event of a micrometeorite impact".
The Luna-25, which is about the size of a small car, is the first Russian spacecraft to enter lunar orbit since 1976 on Wednesday. It will attempt to operate for a year on the south pole, where researchers from NASA and other space agencies have recently found evidence of frozen water in the craters. It is about the.
Major space powers should consider the effects of the presence of water since it may permit longer human missions on the moon and lunar resource extraction.