1/18/2006: Lunokhod 1

[VinDurzle]

Originally Posted by glatt

I'm glad this is today's image. I knew the Soviets sent unmanned missions to the moon, but never knew any details. The Lunokhod 1 was apparently very cool, and seems to have all the basic things you would want in a robot rover. This is another example of where the Russians beat the US in the space race. It took us decades to come up with a similar robot rover. Of course, one of our astronauts at the time could have simply walked up to this thing and kicked it over onto its back, since we had men on the moon when this thing was up there.

...CCCP wdv set their dogs n monkeys on your ass!

[WabUfvot5]

I bet the Lunokhod 1 still has plenty of life left in the pornographic film industry.

[mitheral]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

So whose idea was it to put two cameras right on the front, looking all like eyes?

I'd bet stereo vision too. Good place for the cameras overall. The lenses are under the robot at a slight downward angle, should keep them clean in vacuum. And the lense caps are fail safe open.