Russia’s Luna-25 spacecraft sends back first image of lunar surface

Luna-25, Russia’s uncrewed spacecraft that’s currently orbiting the Moon, has captured its first image of the lunar surface. Russia’s state space corporation Roscosmos published the image on August 17.

The picture shows a crater on the far side of the Moon called Zeeman.

“These images add a significant amount to the information we have about this crater. The first image of the far side of the Moon was taken in October 1959 by the Soviet automatic station Luna-3,” Roscosmos said in a statement.