page_title: Lunokhod 2
section_title: Current status
hierarchical_section_title: Lunokhod 2 / Current status
caption_attribution_description: English: The Lunokhod 2 rover. The large white arrow indicates the rover, the smaller white arrows indicate the rovers tracks, and the black arrow indicates the crater where it picked up its fatal load of lunar dust 880 meters before failing.
context_page_description: Lunokhod 2 was the second of two unmanned lunar rovers landed on the Moon by the Soviet Union as part of the Lunokhod programme.
  The Luna 21 spacecraft landed on the Moon and deployed the second Soviet lunar rover, Lunokhod 2, in January 1973. The primary objectives of the mission were to collect images of the lunar surface, examine ambient light levels to determine the feasibility of astronomical observations from the Moon, perform laser ranging experiments from Earth, observe solar X-rays, measure local magnetic fields, and study the soil mechanics of the lunar surface material.
context_section_description: Lunokhod 2 continues to be detected by lunar laser ranging experiments and its position is known to sub-meter accuracy.  On March 17, 2010 Phil Stooke at the University of Western Ontario announced that he had located Lunokhod 2 in NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) images, but later images showed the initial identification was incorrect (the identified point was a mark in the rover tracks near the end of the route, made as Lunokhod 2 turned around), and the LRO LROC team identified the correct location of the rover in March 2012. Excellent Lunokhod 2 images from LROC were published by Mark Robinson on SESE site of ASU.
caption: Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter image of Lunokhod 2 and its tracks. The large white arrow indicates the rover, the smaller white arrows indicate the rover's tracks, and the black arrow indicates the crater where it picked up its fatal load of lunar dust.[14]
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