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AI helps find new clues in the 60-year search for Luna 9, the 1st successful moon lander

AI and crowdsourced efforts narrowed Luna 9's landing area to within 3 miles of Soviet coordinates, resolving a 60-year mystery using machine learning on lunar imagery.

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Scientists may have narrowed down the landing site of the Soviet Union's Luna 9, which in 1966 became the first spacecraft to touch down softly on the moon.

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The landing site of the Soviet Luna 9 probe, which had never been identified, may have finally been found. Decades after the historic landing, the exact location of Luna 9 may have been discovered, solving one of the mysteries of space exploration. Credit: ESA. In 1966, the Soviet Union launched the Luna 9 mission, which became the first man-made object to successfully land on the lunar surface. After landing, the probe transmitted the first pan…

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meteored.cl broke the news in on Thursday, February 19, 2026.
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