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Possible Discovery of Luna 9, First Soviet Moon Lander, 60 Years Later
https://newsletter.tf/luna-9-moon-lander-found-1966/
Scientists may have found the lost Soviet Luna 9 Moon lander, the first to land softly and send pictures from the Moon in 1966.
#Luna9, #MoonLanding, #SpaceHistory, #SovietSpace, #LunarExploration
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Old Soviet Moon Lander, Luna 9, Might Be Found After 60 Years
Sixty years ago, the Soviet Union's Luna 9 was the first to land softly on the Moon. It sent back the first pictures from the Moon's surface. Now, using new computer tools and help from many people, scientists think they may have found where it landed.
https://newsletter.tf/luna-9-moon-lander-found-1966/
#Luna9, #MoonLanding, #SpaceHistory, #SovietSpace, #LunarExploration
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60 jaar vermist maar mogelijk is Luna 9 nu gevonden
Luna 9 maakte in 1966 een hobbelige landing op het maanoppervlak en werd daarmee de eerste ruimtesonde die op de
#Chandrayaan2 #landingsplaats #LRO #Luna9 #maan #ruimtesonde #SovjetUnie #YOLO
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Scientists Report “High-Confidence Detections of Artificial Objects” on the Moon—Could They Solve a Cold War-era Mystery?
In 1966, the Soviet Union made history when its Luna 9 mission placed the first object built by…
#NewsBeep #News #Space #AU #Australia #ColdWar #Luna9 #Science #soviet #YOLO-ETA
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Scientists Report “High-Confidence Detections of Artificial Objects” on the Moon—Could They Solve a Cold War-era Mystery?
In 1966, the Soviet Union made history when its Luna 9 mission placed the first object built by…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Science #ColdWar #Luna9 #soviet #Space #YOLO-ETA
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Scientists Report “High-Confidence Detections of Artificial Objects” on the Moon—Could They Solve a Cold War-era Mystery?
In 1966, the Soviet Union made history when its Luna 9 mission placed the first object built by…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Science #ColdWar #Luna9 #soviet #Space #YOLO-ETA
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Scientists Report “High-Confidence Detections of Artificial Objects” on the Moon—Could They Solve a Cold War-era Mystery?
In 1966, the Soviet Union made history when its Luna 9 mission placed the first object built by…
#NewsBeep #News #Science #ColdWar #GB #Luna9 #soviet #Space #UK #UnitedKingdom #YOLO-ETA
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/758266/ Scientists Report “High-Confidence Detections of Artificial Objects” on the Moon—Could They Solve a Cold War-era Mystery? #ColdWar #Luna9 #Science #soviet #Space #UK #UnitedKingdom #YOLOETA
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Possible identification of the Luna 9 Moon landing site using a novel machine learning algorithm: https://www.nature.com/articles/s44453-025-00020-x -> NASA's Lunar Orbiter May Have Spotted Long-Lost #Luna9 Spacecraft, 60 Years After It Vanished: https://www.iflscience.com/nasas-lunar-orbiter-may-have-spotted-long-lost-luna-9-spacecraft-60-years-after-it-vanished-82507
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Possible identification of the Luna 9 Moon landing site using a novel machine learning algorithm: https://www.nature.com/articles/s44453-025-00020-x -> NASA's Lunar Orbiter May Have Spotted Long-Lost #Luna9 Spacecraft, 60 Years After It Vanished: https://www.iflscience.com/nasas-lunar-orbiter-may-have-spotted-long-lost-luna-9-spacecraft-60-years-after-it-vanished-82507
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Possible identification of the Luna 9 Moon landing site using a novel machine learning algorithm: https://www.nature.com/articles/s44453-025-00020-x -> NASA's Lunar Orbiter May Have Spotted Long-Lost #Luna9 Spacecraft, 60 Years After It Vanished: https://www.iflscience.com/nasas-lunar-orbiter-may-have-spotted-long-lost-luna-9-spacecraft-60-years-after-it-vanished-82507
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Possible identification of the Luna 9 Moon landing site using a novel machine learning algorithm: https://www.nature.com/articles/s44453-025-00020-x -> NASA's Lunar Orbiter May Have Spotted Long-Lost #Luna9 Spacecraft, 60 Years After It Vanished: https://www.iflscience.com/nasas-lunar-orbiter-may-have-spotted-long-lost-luna-9-spacecraft-60-years-after-it-vanished-82507
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Possible identification of the Luna 9 Moon landing site using a novel machine learning algorithm: https://www.nature.com/articles/s44453-025-00020-x -> NASA's Lunar Orbiter May Have Spotted Long-Lost #Luna9 Spacecraft, 60 Years After It Vanished: https://www.iflscience.com/nasas-lunar-orbiter-may-have-spotted-long-lost-luna-9-spacecraft-60-years-after-it-vanished-82507
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Landeplatz von Luna 9 gefunden? Aufnahmen könnten seit 60 Jahren gesuchte Relikte der sowjetischen Mondlandesonde zeigen. #Luna9 #Mondlandung #Mond #Mondsonde #Raumfahrt
https://www.scinexx.de/news/kosmos/landeplatz-von-luna-9-gefunden/ -
Landeplatz von Luna 9 gefunden? Aufnahmen könnten seit 60 Jahren gesuchte Relikte der sowjetischen Mondlandesonde zeigen. #Luna9 #Mondlandung #Mond #Mondsonde #Raumfahrt
https://www.scinexx.de/news/kosmos/landeplatz-von-luna-9-gefunden/ -
Landeplatz von Luna 9 gefunden? Aufnahmen könnten seit 60 Jahren gesuchte Relikte der sowjetischen Mondlandesonde zeigen. #Luna9 #Mondlandung #Mond #Mondsonde #Raumfahrt
https://www.scinexx.de/news/kosmos/landeplatz-von-luna-9-gefunden/ -
Landeplatz von Luna 9 gefunden? Aufnahmen könnten seit 60 Jahren gesuchte Relikte der sowjetischen Mondlandesonde zeigen. #Luna9 #Mondlandung #Mond #Mondsonde #Raumfahrt
https://www.scinexx.de/news/kosmos/landeplatz-von-luna-9-gefunden/ -
Landeplatz von Luna 9 gefunden? Aufnahmen könnten seit 60 Jahren gesuchte Relikte der sowjetischen Mondlandesonde zeigen. #Luna9 #Mondlandung #Mond #Mondsonde #Raumfahrt
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Scientists have spent decades searching for the final resting place of Luna 9, the first spacecraft to soft-land on the moon. Now they’re on the cusp of finding it.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/where-did-luna-9-land-on-the-moon
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Scientists have spent decades searching for the final resting place of Luna 9, the first spacecraft to soft-land on the moon. Now they’re on the cusp of finding it.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/where-did-luna-9-land-on-the-moon
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Scientists have spent decades searching for the final resting place of Luna 9, the first spacecraft to soft-land on the moon. Now they’re on the cusp of finding it.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/where-did-luna-9-land-on-the-moon
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Scientists have spent decades searching for the final resting place of Luna 9, the first spacecraft to soft-land on the moon. Now they’re on the cusp of finding it.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/where-did-luna-9-land-on-the-moon
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Scientists have spent decades searching for the final resting place of Luna 9, the first spacecraft to soft-land on the moon. Now they’re on the cusp of finding it.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/where-did-luna-9-land-on-the-moon
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Sometimes I encounter people who pretend that spacecraft operators can hide where their spacecraft are.
Then I remind them of things like this:
QT Jodrell Bank @jodrellbank.bsky.social
2026 February 4On this day in Jodrell’s history.
In 1966, the first close-up photographs of the lunar surface - taken by the Soviet #Luna9 spacecraft - were received at Jodrell Bank, with help from an early type of facsimile machine (a picture receiver) borrowed from the Daily Express
https://bsky.app/profile/jodrellbank.bsky.social/post/3me2kqphgvm2b -
Sometimes I encounter people who pretend that spacecraft operators can hide where their spacecraft are.
Then I remind them of things like this:
QT Jodrell Bank @jodrellbank.bsky.social
2026 February 4On this day in Jodrell’s history.
In 1966, the first close-up photographs of the lunar surface - taken by the Soviet #Luna9 spacecraft - were received at Jodrell Bank, with help from an early type of facsimile machine (a picture receiver) borrowed from the Daily Express
https://bsky.app/profile/jodrellbank.bsky.social/post/3me2kqphgvm2b -
Sometimes I encounter people who pretend that spacecraft operators can hide where their spacecraft are.
Then I remind them of things like this:
QT Jodrell Bank @jodrellbank.bsky.social
2026 February 4On this day in Jodrell’s history.
In 1966, the first close-up photographs of the lunar surface - taken by the Soviet #Luna9 spacecraft - were received at Jodrell Bank, with help from an early type of facsimile machine (a picture receiver) borrowed from the Daily Express
https://bsky.app/profile/jodrellbank.bsky.social/post/3me2kqphgvm2b -
Sometimes I encounter people who pretend that spacecraft operators can hide where their spacecraft are.
Then I remind them of things like this:
QT Jodrell Bank @jodrellbank.bsky.social
2026 February 4On this day in Jodrell’s history.
In 1966, the first close-up photographs of the lunar surface - taken by the Soviet #Luna9 spacecraft - were received at Jodrell Bank, with help from an early type of facsimile machine (a picture receiver) borrowed from the Daily Express
https://bsky.app/profile/jodrellbank.bsky.social/post/3me2kqphgvm2b -
Sometimes I encounter people who pretend that spacecraft operators can hide where their spacecraft are.
Then I remind them of things like this:
QT Jodrell Bank @jodrellbank.bsky.social
2026 February 4On this day in Jodrell’s history.
In 1966, the first close-up photographs of the lunar surface - taken by the Soviet #Luna9 spacecraft - were received at Jodrell Bank, with help from an early type of facsimile machine (a picture receiver) borrowed from the Daily Express
https://bsky.app/profile/jodrellbank.bsky.social/post/3me2kqphgvm2b -
RE: https://mastodon.social/@PlanetariumBochum/116009591473718082
60 years ago #Luna9 accomplished the first soft landing on the Moon!
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@PlanetariumBochum/116009591473718082
60 years ago #Luna9 accomplished the first soft landing on the Moon!
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@PlanetariumBochum/116009591473718082
60 years ago #Luna9 accomplished the first soft landing on the Moon!
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@PlanetariumBochum/116009591473718082
60 years ago #Luna9 accomplished the first soft landing on the Moon!
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@PlanetariumBochum/116009591473718082
60 years ago #Luna9 accomplished the first soft landing on the Moon!
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Während es #ArtemisII frühestens im März - https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/02/03/nasa-conducts-artemis-ii-fuel-test-eyes-march-for-launch-opportunity/ - versuchen kann, jährt sich gerade zum 60. Mal die erste weiche Landung auf dem #Mond mit der sowjetischen #Luna9: https://www.russianspaceweb.com/luna9.html und https://www.drewexmachina.com/2016/02/03/luna-9-the-first-lunar-landing/ und https://reves-d-espace.com/3-fevrier-1966-premier-atterrissage-lunaire-par-luna-9/ und https://habr.com/ru/articles/992292/ = Missions-Verlauf, Bilder und Wirkung, https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10164649628359808 = ein weites Panorama, und https://www.swr.de/swrkultur/wissen/archivradio/sowjetische-luna-9-setzt-1966-auf-mondoberflaeche-auf-100.html = wie deutsches Radio damals darüber berichtete. Mit einer kuriosen Anekdote ganz am Ende.
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Während es #ArtemisII frühestens im März - https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/02/03/nasa-conducts-artemis-ii-fuel-test-eyes-march-for-launch-opportunity/ - versuchen kann, jährt sich gerade zum 60. Mal die erste weiche Landung auf dem #Mond mit der sowjetischen #Luna9: https://www.russianspaceweb.com/luna9.html und https://www.drewexmachina.com/2016/02/03/luna-9-the-first-lunar-landing/ und https://reves-d-espace.com/3-fevrier-1966-premier-atterrissage-lunaire-par-luna-9/ und https://habr.com/ru/articles/992292/ = Missions-Verlauf, Bilder und Wirkung, https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10164649628359808 = ein weites Panorama, und https://www.swr.de/swrkultur/wissen/archivradio/sowjetische-luna-9-setzt-1966-auf-mondoberflaeche-auf-100.html = wie deutsches Radio damals darüber berichtete. Mit einer kuriosen Anekdote ganz am Ende.
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Während es #ArtemisII frühestens im März - https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/02/03/nasa-conducts-artemis-ii-fuel-test-eyes-march-for-launch-opportunity/ - versuchen kann, jährt sich gerade zum 60. Mal die erste weiche Landung auf dem #Mond mit der sowjetischen #Luna9: https://www.russianspaceweb.com/luna9.html und https://www.drewexmachina.com/2016/02/03/luna-9-the-first-lunar-landing/ und https://reves-d-espace.com/3-fevrier-1966-premier-atterrissage-lunaire-par-luna-9/ und https://habr.com/ru/articles/992292/ = Missions-Verlauf, Bilder und Wirkung, https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10164649628359808 = ein weites Panorama, und https://www.swr.de/swrkultur/wissen/archivradio/sowjetische-luna-9-setzt-1966-auf-mondoberflaeche-auf-100.html = wie deutsches Radio damals darüber berichtete. Mit einer kuriosen Anekdote ganz am Ende.
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Während es #ArtemisII frühestens im März - https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/02/03/nasa-conducts-artemis-ii-fuel-test-eyes-march-for-launch-opportunity/ - versuchen kann, jährt sich gerade zum 60. Mal die erste weiche Landung auf dem #Mond mit der sowjetischen #Luna9: https://www.russianspaceweb.com/luna9.html und https://www.drewexmachina.com/2016/02/03/luna-9-the-first-lunar-landing/ und https://reves-d-espace.com/3-fevrier-1966-premier-atterrissage-lunaire-par-luna-9/ und https://habr.com/ru/articles/992292/ = Missions-Verlauf, Bilder und Wirkung, https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10164649628359808 = ein weites Panorama, und https://www.swr.de/swrkultur/wissen/archivradio/sowjetische-luna-9-setzt-1966-auf-mondoberflaeche-auf-100.html = wie deutsches Radio damals darüber berichtete. Mit einer kuriosen Anekdote ganz am Ende.
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Während es #ArtemisII frühestens im März - https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/02/03/nasa-conducts-artemis-ii-fuel-test-eyes-march-for-launch-opportunity/ - versuchen kann, jährt sich gerade zum 60. Mal die erste weiche Landung auf dem #Mond mit der sowjetischen #Luna9: https://www.russianspaceweb.com/luna9.html und https://www.drewexmachina.com/2016/02/03/luna-9-the-first-lunar-landing/ und https://reves-d-espace.com/3-fevrier-1966-premier-atterrissage-lunaire-par-luna-9/ und https://habr.com/ru/articles/992292/ = Missions-Verlauf, Bilder und Wirkung, https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10164649628359808 = ein weites Panorama, und https://www.swr.de/swrkultur/wissen/archivradio/sowjetische-luna-9-setzt-1966-auf-mondoberflaeche-auf-100.html = wie deutsches Radio damals darüber berichtete. Mit einer kuriosen Anekdote ganz am Ende.
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That puts the landing somewhere in this map. Obviously we can't prove anything here, and I hope this illustrates just how hard it is to figure out where to look for the lander in LRO images.
OK, now we will come back to Luna 13 and see what constraints there are to its location. It's not many! There is a great discovery waiting for someone in images which are already on the ground.
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That puts the landing somewhere in this map. Obviously we can't prove anything here, and I hope this illustrates just how hard it is to figure out where to look for the lander in LRO images.
OK, now we will come back to Luna 13 and see what constraints there are to its location. It's not many! There is a great discovery waiting for someone in images which are already on the ground.
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That puts the landing somewhere in this map. Obviously we can't prove anything here, and I hope this illustrates just how hard it is to figure out where to look for the lander in LRO images.
OK, now we will come back to Luna 13 and see what constraints there are to its location. It's not many! There is a great discovery waiting for someone in images which are already on the ground.
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That puts the landing somewhere in this map. Obviously we can't prove anything here, and I hope this illustrates just how hard it is to figure out where to look for the lander in LRO images.
OK, now we will come back to Luna 13 and see what constraints there are to its location. It's not many! There is a great discovery waiting for someone in images which are already on the ground.
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That puts the landing somewhere in this map. Obviously we can't prove anything here, and I hope this illustrates just how hard it is to figure out where to look for the lander in LRO images.
OK, now we will come back to Luna 13 and see what constraints there are to its location. It's not many! There is a great discovery waiting for someone in images which are already on the ground.
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The Luna 9 panorama does have a bit of local relief on the horizon, especially to the north (see the circular projection of the panorama, though note its horizon relief is exaggerated in that view). I'm moving my preferred location east, just east of a wrinkle ridge in the plains. That ridge will give us a bit of irregularity on the horizon, and might just raise the level of the local horizon enough to hide the distant hills. Here's my new guess. #moon #Luna9
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The Luna 9 panorama does have a bit of local relief on the horizon, especially to the north (see the circular projection of the panorama, though note its horizon relief is exaggerated in that view). I'm moving my preferred location east, just east of a wrinkle ridge in the plains. That ridge will give us a bit of irregularity on the horizon, and might just raise the level of the local horizon enough to hide the distant hills. Here's my new guess. #moon #Luna9
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The Luna 9 panorama does have a bit of local relief on the horizon, especially to the north (see the circular projection of the panorama, though note its horizon relief is exaggerated in that view). I'm moving my preferred location east, just east of a wrinkle ridge in the plains. That ridge will give us a bit of irregularity on the horizon, and might just raise the level of the local horizon enough to hide the distant hills. Here's my new guess. #moon #Luna9
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The Luna 9 panorama does have a bit of local relief on the horizon, especially to the north (see the circular projection of the panorama, though note its horizon relief is exaggerated in that view). I'm moving my preferred location east, just east of a wrinkle ridge in the plains. That ridge will give us a bit of irregularity on the horizon, and might just raise the level of the local horizon enough to hide the distant hills. Here's my new guess. #moon #Luna9
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The Luna 9 panorama does have a bit of local relief on the horizon, especially to the north (see the circular projection of the panorama, though note its horizon relief is exaggerated in that view). I'm moving my preferred location east, just east of a wrinkle ridge in the plains. That ridge will give us a bit of irregularity on the horizon, and might just raise the level of the local horizon enough to hide the distant hills. Here's my new guess. #moon #Luna9
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I'm going to step back in time slightly to look at the Luna 9 location again, then do the same for Luna 13. I'm working on the Luna 9 problem at the same time I'm posting this sequence. I said we don't know how far away the 'southwest hill' is, but still talked about possibly seeing it in the panorama. I now prefer to discount it (i.e. it's a small local mound, not a distant mountain). It looks like you have to go too far north to avoid seeing the 1200 m hill and other mountains.
#moon #Luna9 -
I'm going to step back in time slightly to look at the Luna 9 location again, then do the same for Luna 13. I'm working on the Luna 9 problem at the same time I'm posting this sequence. I said we don't know how far away the 'southwest hill' is, but still talked about possibly seeing it in the panorama. I now prefer to discount it (i.e. it's a small local mound, not a distant mountain). It looks like you have to go too far north to avoid seeing the 1200 m hill and other mountains.
#moon #Luna9 -
I'm going to step back in time slightly to look at the Luna 9 location again, then do the same for Luna 13. I'm working on the Luna 9 problem at the same time I'm posting this sequence. I said we don't know how far away the 'southwest hill' is, but still talked about possibly seeing it in the panorama. I now prefer to discount it (i.e. it's a small local mound, not a distant mountain). It looks like you have to go too far north to avoid seeing the 1200 m hill and other mountains.
#moon #Luna9 -
I'm going to step back in time slightly to look at the Luna 9 location again, then do the same for Luna 13. I'm working on the Luna 9 problem at the same time I'm posting this sequence. I said we don't know how far away the 'southwest hill' is, but still talked about possibly seeing it in the panorama. I now prefer to discount it (i.e. it's a small local mound, not a distant mountain). It looks like you have to go too far north to avoid seeing the 1200 m hill and other mountains.
#moon #Luna9 -
I'm going to step back in time slightly to look at the Luna 9 location again, then do the same for Luna 13. I'm working on the Luna 9 problem at the same time I'm posting this sequence. I said we don't know how far away the 'southwest hill' is, but still talked about possibly seeing it in the panorama. I now prefer to discount it (i.e. it's a small local mound, not a distant mountain). It looks like you have to go too far north to avoid seeing the 1200 m hill and other mountains.
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To complicate matters further, here is a map drawn basically just using the projected panorama. It doesn''t match the earlier map very well so which should we use?
These are difficult problems but one day a human being will solve them. Are there other approaches? Hyperspectral or radar imaging capable of detecting metal fragments? Maybe, but not at resolutions available to us today.
That's enough about Luna 9. Time to move on to some orbiters. #moon #Luna9
