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LRO Photographs Soviet Lunar Landers From the '70s

Posted by Soulskill on from the i-can-see-my-house-from-here dept.

braindrainbahrain writes "Photographs of the Sea of Crises on the Moon taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter show the Soviet lunar landers Luna 20, Luna 23 and Luna 24, which landed on the Moon in the 1970s. In addition to the landers, it is possible to see the tracks made by the Lunokhod lunar rover! The Soviet Lunokhod lunar rover predates the first successful Mars Rover by some 30 years. (Note: Very cool old-style artists' drawings of the Soviet craft at the Wikipedia links above.)"

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  1. Damn vandals! by Locke2005 · · Score: 3, Funny

    If you look closely, you can see that 2 of the rovers have been put up on blocks and had their tires stripped...

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  2. Re:Quasi-Dupe? by snowraver1 · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you actually had read the summary, you might have noticed that this is set includes a few extra landers. The other article had only the one lander (although IMO it was a better picture because you could see the tracks clearly). I wouldn't call it a dupe. Give it a few more days then we can call it a dupe.

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  3. Apollo was a Hoax by Ken+Broadfoot · · Score: 2, Funny

    We all know that the Apollo program was a hoax. It was all filmed in the Nevada Desert... But who let the Russians come to Nevada in the 70's? Now I really am scared... I thought they were our enemies then.. but apparently they were in on the hoax....

    Be very afraid!

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    1. Re:Apollo was a Hoax by Jazzbunny · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Apparently Japanese are included in hoax too as seen here. We all know that USA had better cameras 40 years ago than Japan today, so hoax it is. I'm sorry but I don't know about Russians at Nevada at that time, or at least I won't tell you. Have a nice weekend.

  4. An advanced precursor civilization by CottonThePirate · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Does anyone else look at these with the same awe as the pyramids. Like "Look what those primitive people could do with only boatloads of cash". It makes me sad the state of our local space exploration.

    1. Re:An advanced precursor civilization by Vellmont · · Score: 5, Insightful


      It makes me sad the state of our local space exploration.

      I suspect you aren't paying much attention to space exploration. Does having two working rovers on Mars for the past several years, a mission to Titan, a probe soon orbit Mercury, more probes sent to Jupiter, multiple orbiters currently circling Mars, multiple different space telescopes, a probe currently en-route to Pluto, and a slew of other missions listed here "make you sad"?

      If it does, I suspect you don't understand what space exploration is about.

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