Space Daily June 26, 2026 • 09:23

For nearly forty years, scientists aimed lasers at the Moon and got nothing back from the Soviet rover Lunokhod 1 — then in 2010, a pulse bounced straight back from a reflector that had been sitting in the lunar dust the whole time - Space Daily

LRO images helped APOLLO researchers relocate Lunokhod 1 in 2010, allowing its long-lost lunar laser reflector to return a strong signal.

For nearly forty years, one of the Moon’s most useful mirrors sat in silence. It was not broken. It had not been buried by design. It was simply too hard to find.
The mirror belonged to Lunokhod 1, … [+9420 chars]

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For nearly forty years, scientists aimed lasers at the Moon and got nothing back from the Soviet rover Lunokhod 1 — then in 2010, a pulse bounced straight back from a reflector that had been sitting in the lunar dust the whole time - Space Daily

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