Russia's Luna-25 crash left 10-meter wide crater on Moon's surface: NASA shares images
new crater is close to the Luna 25 estimated impact point, the LRO team concludes it is likely to be from that mission, rather than a natural impactor. NASA informed that the new crater is about 10 meters in diameter and is located at 57.865 degrees south latitude and 61.360 degrees east longitude at an elevation of about minus 360 meters.
"Since this new crater is close to the Luna-25 estimated impact point, the LRO team concludes it is likely to be from that mission, rather than a natural impactor," the space agency said as per Reuters. Luna-25 was Russia's first moon mission after 47 years and its failure points out the post-Soviet decline in its mighty space program.
Russian space agency Roscosmos has formed a special inter-departmental commission to probe the crash of Luna-25 and find out the reasons behind the failure of the moon mission. The chief of Roscomos talked about the reasons behind the crash and explained that the engines of the spacecraft were activated for placing Luna-25 in the pre-landing orbit.
These engines were not turned off as planned which led to uncontrolled descent of the lander onto the moon's surface. "The negative experience of interrupting the lunar program for almost 50 years is the main reason for the failures," Yury Borisov, the Director General of Roscosmos said.
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