Two Teams Clash Over Locating Luna 9, the Lost Soviet Moon Lander
Two research teams claim to have located the long-lost Soviet Luna 9 lunar lander—one via crowdsourced landscape matching to NASA’s LRO data, the other with a YOLO-ETA machine-learning search trained on Apollo sites. With Luna 9’s precise resting place still unknown after its 1966 landing, the dispute will hinge on higher-resolution images from India’s Chandrayaan-2 over the sites in March, potentially confirming—or debunking—each claim.