The Russian Space Agency says the Russian Luna-25 spacecraft is achieving its first results

Russia’s space agency Roscosmos said on Saturday that the Russian spacecraft, which was on a mission to the moon’s south pole, had achieved its first results and is now being analyzed.

The agency also released images of the Moon’s Zeeman crater taken by the Luna-25 spacecraft, which will touch down at the South Pole on Monday after orbiting Earth’s only natural satellite for five days.

The agency said that the Zeman crater is the third deepest crater in the southern hemisphere of the moon, with a diameter of 190 km and a depth of eight km.

Roscosmos said that the data it has received so far has provided information about the chemical elements in the lunar soil and will also facilitate the operation of instruments designed to study the lunar surface.

It added that its equipment recorded a “small meteor impact”.

Luna-25 entered lunar orbit on Wednesday, the first Russian spacecraft since 1976. About the size of a small car, it will run for a year at the South Pole, as scientists from NASA and other space agencies have been tracking in recent years. of frozen water in the pits.

The presence of water has implications for the major space powers, as it may allow for an extended stay of humans on the moon, allowing for resource extraction from the moon. (Written by Gareth Jones, Edited by Jane Merriman)