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Canadian Researcher Solves 37-year-old Space Mystery

03/19/2010 12:49AM

Canadian Researcher Solves 37-year-old Space Mystery

A researcher from The University of Western Ontario has helped solve a 37-year-old space mystery using lunar images released yesterday by NASA and maps from his own atlas of the moon. Phil Stooke, a professor at the University of Western Ontario pinpointed the exact location of the Russian rover Lunokhod 2, discovering tracks left by the lunar sampler 37 years ago after it made a 35-kilometre trek.


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