This NASA picture could show Russia’s failed lunar lander’s final resting place.

Posted Sep 2, 2023, 6:27 PM UTC

The agency’s space-based Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured an image of a new crater in the region Roscosmos, Russia’s space agency, estimates is where its Luna 25 lander crashed, according to a NASA blog post on Thursday.

Luna 25 was lost last month, just days before India’s own Moon lander successfully touched down and began sending back images.

A GIF cycles between two images of the moon, with one showing a single large crater and many smaller ones, and another showing the same, with an apparent new crater centered in the image.

NASA’s LRO shows a crater that may have been created by the crash of Russia’s Luna-25.

Image: NASA