Revised data show Soviet Union’s 1970s lunar vehicle outdistanced NASA’s Opportunity — for now.
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21 June 2013
This story wrongly stated that the Russian scientists used laser mapping from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to make a three-dimensional representation of the Moon’s topography. In fact, they used processed images from the orbiter’s narrow-angle camera. The text has now been corrected.
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Witze, A. Space rovers in record race. Nature 498, 284–285 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/498284a
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