Liftoff is scheduled for 7:10 p.m. EDT today (Aug. 10).
A big part of the Luna 25 mission involves demonstrating various technologies necessary for lunar exploration, as Russia plans to launch other moon efforts in the near future. But Luna 25 will also perform a variety of scientific work during its roughly yearlong surface mission.
For example, the lander"will use a scoop to take rock samples from a depth of up to 15 cm to test for the presence of frozen water that could support human life," Reuters wrote. Luna 25's launch has been delayed significantly; the mission was originally supposed to get off the ground in October 2021. Some mission details have changed in that time as well. For example, the European Space Agency Luna 25 will be Russia's first fully homegrown deep-space mission since November 2011, when the Phobos-Grunt sample-return probe launched toward.
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