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Space programs and missions · A guided course
Driving a lunar laboratory from Earth—and learning from it decades later
Follow the Soviet lunar rovers through mobile science, delayed ground control, power and thermal constraints, historical evidence and the long life of preserved observations.
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LRO view of the Luna 17 delivery lander, marked by an arrow. This is an orbital site image, not a portrait of Lunokhod 1. The original 100-meter scale bar is retained. Display image resized and compressed.
NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University · Image sourceYour place in the bigger picture
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Six programs, six approaches to learning about the Moon.
From an antenna beam to a usable message
The Lunokhod rover program
Driving a lunar laboratory from Earth—and learning from it decades later
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