Russia’s Luna-25 suffers glitch in pre-landing orbit transfer

The Luna-25 lander is the first Russian spacecraft to enter the Moon’s orbit since 1976.

Russia’s Luna-25 spacecraft is scheduled to land on the south pole of the moon on Monday.

The Russian spacecraft is scheduled to land on the south pole of the moon on Monday, part of a big power race to explore a part of the moon that scientists think may hold frozen water and precious elements. The agency also posted images of the moon’s Zeeman crater taken from the spacecraft. The crater is the third-deepest in the moon’s southern hemisphere, it said, measuring 190km in diameter and 8km in depth.

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