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On December 21, 1966, a spacecraft was launched in the USSR Luna 13, which three days later safely landed on natural satellite of the earth.
Soft landing of “Moon-13” occurred in the ocean of storms, accurate coordinates are 18 ° 52 ‘north latitude and 62 ° 3’ west longitude. The device worked for only four days until December 28, 1966, after which the batteries were completely discharged at the station and she “shut up” forever.
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However, before that, the spacecraft managed to transmit to Earth several lunar surface photopanos and some data on soil of Selena (regolith) and its radiation background. The most interesting and therefore it was the pictures that were classified for many years The moons made by the station since in the camera lens USSR automatic space station got things clearly artificial origin. And if today virtual archaeologists find something similar on the images obtained from Mars, however somewhat controversial in terms of origin, then here artificiality of parts from any mechanism does not cause the slightest doubt.
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It is no coincidence that some commentators of this information are surprised stated that the quality of pictures in 1966 is much better (according to at least in clarity) than current photos from Mars American agency NASA. It turns out a paradox: or NASA before filming equipment is still worse than in the USSR in the sixties of the last century, which is unlikely, or the Americans all of us just lead by the nose …
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