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Surveyor 3 on the Moon. The first image returned by Luna 3 showed the far side of the Moon. This is a list of robotic space probes that have flown by, impacted, orbited or landed on the Moon for the purpose of lunar exploration, as well as probes launched toward the Moon that failed to reach their target.
The first partially successful lunar mission was Luna 1 (January 1959), the first probe to leave Earth and fly past another astronomical body. Soon after that the first Moon landing and the first landing on any extraterrestrial body was performed by Luna 2 , [ 1 ] which intentionally impacted the Moon on 14 September 1959.
Data gathered by Chang'e 1 was used to create an accurate and high resolution 3-D map of the lunar surface. [9] Chang'e 1 was the first lunar probe to conduct passive, multi-channel, microwave remote sensing of the Moon by using a microwave radiometer. [10] Its sister orbital probe Chang'e 2 was launched on 1 October 2010. [11]
Chang’e-6, the first mission to bring back soil from the moon’s far side, collected 1.9 kilograms (4.2 pounds) of lunar soil via a robotic probe in June before returning to Earth, a scientific ...
Luna 1 was designed to impact the Moon, delivering two metallic pennants with the Soviet coat of arms that were included into its payload package. [2] It also had six instruments to study the Moon upon its suicidal approach. The flux-gate magnetometer was triaxial and could measure ± 3000 gammas. It was designed to detect lunar magnetic fields.
Parker Solar Probe, first spacecraft to visit the outer corona of the Sun China: Chang'e 4: Moon: Success: Chang'e 4, first spacecraft to soft-land on the lunar far side. 2019 Egypt: NARSSCube-2: Earth: Success: NARSSCube-2, Egypt's first domestically built satellite Israel: Beresheet: Moon: Failure: Beresheet, first private space probe and ...
China on Friday launched an uncrewed spacecraft on a nearly two-month mission to retrieve rocks and soil from the far side of the moon, the first country to make such an ambitious attempt. The ...
The first artificial object to fly by the Moon was uncrewed Soviet probe Luna 1 on January 4, 1959, and went on to be the first probe to reach a heliocentric orbit around the Sun. [28] Few knew that Luna 1 was designed to impact the surface of the Moon. The first probe to impact the surface of the Moon was the Soviet probe Luna 2, which made a ...