{"id":13161,"date":"2023-09-01T10:02:03","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T14:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/2023\/09\/01\/nasa-new-moon-crater-is-likely-impact-site-of-russias-failed-mission\/"},"modified":"2023-09-01T10:02:03","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T14:02:03","slug":"nasa-new-moon-crater-is-likely-impact-site-of-russias-failed-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/2023\/09\/01\/nasa-new-moon-crater-is-likely-impact-site-of-russias-failed-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA: New Moon Crater Is \u2018Likely\u2019 Impact Site of Russia\u2019s Failed Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. space agency NASA says a new 10-meter-wide crater on the moon \u201cis likely the impact site of Russia\u2019s Luna 25 mission.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Russian mission was aiming to pull off a soft landing on the moon\u2019s south pole last month, but instead the spacecraft crashed on the moon.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>NASA said, \u201cthe Russian spacecraft Luna 25 experienced an anomaly,\u201d causing the spacecraft to crash on August 19.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>NASA said Russia had pictures of the area surrounding the crash site that were taken in June 2022 and those photographs did not reveal a crater in the area. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Since this new crater is close to the Luna 25 estimated impact point&#8230;\u00a0 it is likely to be from that mission, rather than a natural impactor,\u201d said the NASA report.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While Russia\u2019s most recent moon mission failed, Russia was a space powerhouse in the 20th Century &#8211; launching Sputnik, the first satellite to orbit the Earth, in 1957 and sending the first man \u2013 cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin \u2013 into space in 1961.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. space agency NASA says a new 10-meter-wide crater on the moon \u201cis likely the impact site of Russia\u2019s Luna 25 mission.\u201d \u00a0 The Russian mission was aiming to pull off a soft landing on the moon\u2019s south pole last month, but instead the spacecraft crashed on the moon.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 NASA said, \u201cthe Russian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":495,"featured_media":13162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[141],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/495"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}