It would be nice to know where Luna 9 is, the first successful lander. We may want to set up a register of historic sites, not to be disturbed by future missions or hardware impacts. To do that we need accurate locations.

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We don't know if it is still clean or oriented suitably...if not there's no hope. But if it is, we still need a good position.

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But it does depend on being able to match features. In very flat areas there may be nothing to match.

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The argument has continued since it landed.

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