Russian Luna-25 spacecraft
According to a statement made on Saturday by Russia’s national space agency Roskosmos, the Russian spacecraft on a mission to the south pole of the moon has provided its initial data, which are currently being analyzed.
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.
Luna-25, a Russian spacecraft, reaches lunar orbit
The Zeeman crater, which has a 190 km circumference and a depth of 8 km, is the third-deepest crater in the southern hemisphere of the moon, according to the agency.
According to Roskosmos, the data it has so far received has revealed information about the chemical components of lunar soil and will make it easier for instruments intended to examine the moon’s near-surface to operate.
It continued by saying that its tools had recorded “the event of a micrometeorite impact.”
On Wednesday, the Luna-25 became the first Russian spacecraft to do so since 1976. It will try to function for a year on the south pole, where NASA and other space agencies have recently found evidence of frozen water in the craters. It is about the size of a compact vehicle.
Major space powers should consider the effects of the presence of water since it may permit longer human stays on the moon and lunar resource exploitation.
