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Long-Lost Lunar Reflector Located

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SAN DIEGO, May 3, 2010 — A team of physicists has pinpointed the location of a long-lost light reflector left on the lunar surface by the Soviet Union nearly 40 years ago. Years of searching left many scientists afraid that the reflector would never be found. The Soviet Lunokhod rovers were about 2.3 m long and 1.5 m tall (roughly 7.5 ft long and 5 ft tall). The French-built laser reflector was sent aboard the unmanned Luna 17 mission, which landed on the moon November 17, 1970, releasing a robotic rover that roamed the lunar surface and carried the missing laser reflector. The Soviet lander and its rover,...Read full article

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    Published: May 2010
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