The first scientific results from the Luna-25 instruments are presented. According to the press service of Roskosmos, the specialists conducted several inclusions of the instruments of the interplanetary station.
It is noted that the ADRON-LR neutron and gamma spectrometer registered the most intense lines of chemical elements of the lunar soil in the energy spectrum of gamma rays. In addition, the ion energy-mass analyzer ARIES-L was turned on for the first time in the lunar orbit. It is also specified that the PML device registered the event of a micrometeorite impact. “Most likely, this micrometeorite belongs to the Perseid meteor shower,” Roscosmos said.
The specialists also processed two images of the lunar surface taken on August 17 by the landing cameras of the STS-L system and linked to a digital elevation model, which increased the accuracy of knowing the orbit on which the device is located. Both photographs show the unique Zeeman crater, which is in third place in the list of the twenty deepest craters in the southern hemisphere of the moon.
Recall that the Soyuz 2.1b rocket with the first domestic lunar station in almost 50 years was launched from the Vostochny cosmodrome at 02:11 Moscow time on August 11. The main goal of the mission is to examine the lunar soil for the presence of ice.
Source: Rosbalt
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