Lunokhod 1 was the first successful rover to explore another world. Driven by remote-control operators in the Soviet Union, it travelled more than 10 kilometers (6 miles) in just 10 months.

Here, Lunokhod 1 made a grand entrance, rolling down the dual ramps to make the first ever tire tracks on a body other than Earth. By today's standards, the rover was not pretty, ...

Lunokhod was equipped with things like antennas, four television cameras, and special extendable devices to test the lunar soil, according to a NASA summary of Russian things on the Moon.

Here, Lunokhod 1 made a grand entrance, rolling down the dual ramps to make the first ever tire tracks on a body other than Earth. By today's standards, the rover was ...

Lunokhod 1 came to its final stop on a site situated around 1.4 miles (2.3 kilometers) north of its point of landing. The success last month by the Grasse station was not the first laser ranging ...

Russian Lunokhod 2 moon driving distance is longer than previous estimates; Mars rover Opportunity hasn't broken international off-world driving record yet. News Home Page ...

The Lunokhod 1 retroreflector was sent aboard the unmanned Luna 17 mission, which landed on the Moon November 17, 1970, releasing a robotic rover that roamed the lunar surface.

In November 1970, a Soviet probe landed on the surface of the moon and released two ramps. A rover, named Lunokhod 1, descended to the surface to take pictures and conduct experiments. It carried ...

Lunokhod 2 landed on Jan. 15, 1973, and over five months it traveled more than 23 miles on the moon’s surface. It surveyed the moonscape with television and panoramic cameras, ...

Although the United States roved the Moon first on manned missions, the Soviet Union was the first nation to robotically rove around the lunar surface with the twin Lunokhod rovers in the early 1970s.

Opportunity, the little rover that could, has broken a 41-year-old driving distance record that’s out of this world. The decade-old NASA Mars rover has crossed the 25-mile mark, surpassing the ...