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The final resting place of Russia's failed Luna-25 lunar lander has apparently been found.

Luna-25, Russia's first moon probe in 47 years, smashed into the lunar surface on Aug. 19, during a maneuver designed to set up its touchdown try a few days later.

The crash blasted out a new 33 feet (10 meters) wide crater, which NASA's sharp-eyed Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) likely found last week, agency officials said.

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[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Does Roscosmos get to name the crater they made?

[–] Buffaloaf@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

The eto vsegda bylo zdes' crater

[–] theodewere@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

they'll just call it Victory Valley or something ass backwards and upside down like they do

[–] carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago

Crazy, I don’t see any Ukrainian preschools there?

[–] YeetPics@mander.xyz 32 points 1 year ago

It wasn't supposed to be a landing, that's just western liberal propaganda. It was a special operation and it worked flawlessly.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Next time we use consrcipt to steer. No more crashes or family gets pushed out of window.

[–] theodewere@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

if he hits the target, he gets a free used toilet

[–] xavier666@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Note: Plumbing not included

[–] ezures@lemmy.wtf 2 points 1 year ago

Iron lung, but in space

[–] obinice@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Russian drone strike on Luna executed successfully

[–] MrNesser@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well at least the Russians contributed something to lunar exploration

[–] A_A@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Russia made its mark on the moon 😆

[–] ithas@artemis.camp 12 points 1 year ago

It's really impressive to me they were, assuming correct, able to pinpoint this on a celestial body from estimates.

[–] Arkarian@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 year ago

Just a rapid unscheduled disassembly.

[–] AnonymousBaba@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] theodewere@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

this is how we process grief

[–] avater@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago

hihihihi 😆

[–] Aussiemandeus@lemmy.world -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I really would not be surprised if they had put a person on that mission in secret. With the hopes of making them a hero and show how great Ruzzia is.

[–] evranch@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The mission design doesn't support bringing anything back, so no. As crappy as Russia may be, stranding a cosmonaut on the moon doesn't sell well with anyone.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

But Kerbels are just fine, which is good cause I didn't design a way to get them back

[–] avater@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

it's a better story than the falling out of the window stuff. By accident of course, everything is great in soviet russia