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Luna-16 in Star City's "The Eyes"
The southern edge of Mare Crisium, the "Sea of Crises" // Guillermo Gonzalez
The "Sea of Crises" was the site of the crash-landing of the Soviet Luna 15 probe in 1969, although a few years later they had better success, returning a sample of the Moon in 1976 with Luna 24.
Fun fact: the Apollo 11 astronauts joked about this name as they were orbiting around the Moon. From the official transcript:
Apollo 11: The Sea of Fertility Doesn't look very fertile to me. I don't know who named it. Apollo 11: Well, it may of been named by - a gentleman whom this crater was named after, Langrenus. Langrenus was a cartographer to the King of Spain and made one of the early reasonably accurate maps of the Moon. NASA: Roger, that is very interesting - Apollo 11: At least it sounds better for our purposes than the Sea of Crises. NASA: Amen to that.
Ten years before we set foot on the moon, the Soviets scattered the moon surface with tiny engraved metal pennants...
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/94155/1959-soviets-littered-moon-tiny-metal-pennants
Luna 2 was the first human-made object to reach the moon.
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More on Luna missions: https://lunarland.com/luna-moon-missions/
Luna Missions to the Moon ... scientists to construct a stereoscopic view of the landing site and determine the distances to various rocks a
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