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Lunokhod| Either of two crewless roving vehicles sent to the Moon by the USSR in the 1970s. Both of the solar-powered eight-wheeled rovers carried television cameras, soil-testing equipment, a laser reflector, and several other scientific instruments. Lunokhod 1 was taken to the Moon by the Luna 17 spacecraft, landing in the Sea of Showers on 17 November 1970. It travelled 10.5 km/6.5 mi before being shut down on 4 October 1971. Lunokhod 2, carried on Luna 21, landed in the Sea of Serenity on 15 January 1973 and travelled 37 km/23 mi before ceasing to function on 4 June 1973. |
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| April 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Using information provided by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) instrument teams, researchers at the University of California San Diego have successfully pinpointed the location of a long lost light reflector left on the lunar surface by bouncing laser signals from Earth to the Russian Lunokhod 1 retroreflector. Using his atlas and the NASA images, Phil Stooke, a professor cross appointed to Western's Departments of Physics and Astronomy and Geography, pinpointed the exact location of the Russian rover Lunokhod 2, discovering tracks left by the lunar sampler 37 years ago after it made a 35-kilometre trek. Several times a month, teams of astronomers from three observatories blast the moon with pulses of light from a powerful laser and wait for the reflections from a network of mirrors placed on the lunar surface by the Apollo 11, 14 and 15 missions, as well as two Soviet Lunokhod landers. |
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