edwhiteandblue:January 15, 1973: Soviet remote-controlled lunar rover Lunokhod 2 lands on the moon.L
edwhiteandblue:January 15, 1973: Soviet remote-controlled lunar rover Lunokhod 2 lands on the moon.Lunokhod 2 was carried to the moon on the Luna 21 lander and was part of the Lunokhod program. Some of its objectives included surface photography and the analysis of lunar regolith. It also took more than 80,000 photographs during its four month expedition, in which it traveled 26 miles.Read more about the Lunokhod rovers here! -- source link
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