• Luna 17 Landing Site
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    Luna 17 Landing Site
    Mare Imbrium, November 17, 1970
    The Soviet Luna 17 robotic spacecraft (left) gently settled to the lunar surface carrying the first successful robotic lunar rover, Lunokhod 1 (right). For the next 10 months, operators in the Soviet Union guided the rover across more than 10 kilometers (6 miles) of lunar terrain. Luna 17 returned video pictures of the surface and tested the properties of the lunar soil.

    Image ID: M114185541R
    Camera: NAC
    Image width: 150 m (492 ft.)

  • Luna 17 Landing Site

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