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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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[-] carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 47 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Well, there is a crater, which is what Putin has apparently dedicated his life to turning preschools into. Who knows, maybe their lander spotted a rock that looked like a preschool.

[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 43 points 1 year ago

Does Roscosmos get to name the crater they made?

[-] Buffaloaf@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

The eto vsegda bylo zdes' crater

[-] YeetPics@mander.xyz 34 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.

[-] MrNesser@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

Well at least the Russians contributed something to lunar exploration

[-] obinice@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Russian drone strike on Luna executed successfully

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

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

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

Iron lung, but in space

[-] AnonymousBaba@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago
[-] avater@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

tell me why. This is the flawless, fearless, borderline superior country that wants to conquer back most of europe and is actively invading souvereign countries, killing or locking up unwanted citizens and is failing at nearly everything it has touched the last years.

Their economy is plumbeling down, their unemployment rate is sky rocking, their degenerated war has brought nothing but suffering and death all over the world and also into their own land and now their superior space mission failed spectaculary as some pieces on the surface of the moon.

So tell me why we shouldn't joke around that after all this propaganda from russia that painted their country as this nearly godlike and flawless entity? Please tell me why...

[-] ithas@artemis.camp 11 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 10 points 1 year ago

Just a rapid unscheduled disassembly.

[-] avater@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

hihihihi 😆

[-] Aussiemandeus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

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

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

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