Lunokhod 1 was the first successful rover to explore another world. It arrived on the moon on Nov. 17, 1970, upon the Luna 17 lander. Driven by remote-control operators in the Soviet Union ...

Here, Lunokhod 1 made a grand entrance, rolling down the dual ramps to make the first ever tire tracks on a body other than Earth. By today's standards, the rover was not pretty, resembling a ...

It’s Lunokhod 1 and the Soviets drove it around the moon in 1970. Lunokhod 1 was abandoned after it ran out of power up there, and the Russian space bosses didn’t have a precise record of its ...

The initial imaging of the two Russian rovers, Lunokhod 1 and 2, were made earlier this year by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) team, led by Mark Robinson from Arizona State ...

The long lost lunar rover Lunokhod 1, has been rediscovered by astronomers using laser pulses, thirty-six years after it disappeared. A team led by Associate Professor Tom Murphy at the University ...

Lunokhod 1 was the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on the Moon. As part of the Soviet Union’s Lunokhod program, the rover was launched on board the Luna 17 spacecraft on November 10, 1970 ...

Scientists have successfully bounced a laser off the Soviet Union's old Lunokhod 1 rover, which trekked across the moon's landscape more than four decades ago. Lunokhod 1 was the first remote ...

Lunokhod 1 rover in its final parking place (38.315*N, 324.992*E) on the surface of Mare Imbrium. The inset in the lower left shows an expanded view of the rover. LROC NAC image M175502049RE.

A team of five operators in the Crimea then remotely drove the Lunokhod 1 rover (image above) down ramps protruding from the lander's sides onto the moon's dusty surface. The solar-powered (but ...

On November 17, 1970, the Soviet spacecraft Luna 17 delivered the lunar rover Lunokhod 1 onto the surface of the moon. For 11 months after, controlled in real-time by a human team in Moscow ...

The Soviet lander and its rover, called Lunokhod 1, were last heard from on September 14, 1971. "No one had seen the reflector since 1971," said Tom Murphy, an associate professor of physics at UCSD.