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A long-lost Soviet spacecraft: AI could finally solve the mystery of Luna 9's landing site
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Using an advanced machine-learning algorithm, researchers in the UK and Japan have identified several promising candidate locations for the long-lost landing site of the Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft. Publishing their results in npj Space Exploration, the team, led by Lewis Pinault at University College London, hope that their model's predictions could soon be tested using new observations from India's Chandrayaan-2 orbiter.
In 1966, the USSR's Luna 9 mission became the first human-made object to land safely on the moon's surface and to transmit photographs from another celestial body. Compared with modern missions, the landing was dramatic: shortly before the main spacecraft itself struck the lunar surface, it deployed a 58-cm-wide, roughly 100-kg spherical landing capsule from above, then maneuvered away to crash at a safe distance.
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Astronomers close in on long-lost Soviet lunar lander
For nearly 60 years, the first humanmade object to successfully land on the moon has been missing. However, researchers may now be closer than ever to finding the Soviet Union’s Luna 9 spacecraft. Using an advanced machine learning program, an international team of scientists believe they have finally narrowed down a list of finalists for Luna 9’s location. Their evidence is laid out in a study recently published in the journal npj Space Exploration.
While the United States beat the USSR to landing a human on the moon on July 20, 1969, that outcome was anything-but-certain only three years earlier. For a moment, the Soviets even appeared on their way to victory after engineers successfully achieved a soft lunar landing with their Luna 9 spacecraft on February 3, 1966. Luna 9 was also the first to send back photographs from another celestial object.
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