Pictures and images published by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) show that the Russian spacecraft Luna-25, which failed to land at the Moon's south pole, left a ten-meter-wide crater when it crashed last month due to a technical issue. Luna-25, the first Russian mission to the Moon in 47 years, failed to land on August 19 when it went out of control and crashed onto the Moon, highlighting the decline of the Russian space sector since the collapse of the Soviet Union, which had one of the world's strongest space programs.
The lunar reconnaissance orbiter (LRO) from NASA photographed a new crater on the Moon's surface and concluded that it is likely located at the crash site of Luna-25. NASA stated, "The new crater is about ten meters in diameter. Since the new crater is close to the estimated impact point of Luna-25, the LRO team concluded that it most likely resulted from that mission and not from a natural cause."
After the crash, Moscow announced that a special ministerial committee had been formed to investigate the reasons for what happened.
