sabine-hossenfelder 3 months ago
PhD in physics #Space and Time

The First Moon Landing Wasn’t Apollo, And We Just Found It

The first ever human spacecraft to land on the moon wasn’t Apollo 11, it was the Soviet Luna 9 probe, which touched down three years before the Apollo lander.

For decades, researchers have for some reason been unable to track down its location … up until now. In a recent paper, researchers wrote that they used a neural network to discover the probe (with 70-80% confidence). Let’s take a look.

Sabine Hossenfelder
PhD in physics