{"id":3102,"date":"2026-02-06T11:35:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T11:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/?p=3102"},"modified":"2026-02-06T11:35:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T11:35:51","slug":"images-from-luna-9-the-first-photos-taken-from-the-surface-of-the-moon%c2%b9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/?p=3102","title":{"rendered":"Images from Luna 9 : the first photos taken from the surface of the Moon\u00b9"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

60 years ago today, the world saw the first photos taken from the surface of the Moon!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nine images from Luna 9\u2014the first spacecraft to survive a lunar landing\u2014were received in Moscow Feb 4\u20135, 1966, but also intercepted and released by the Jodrell Bank Observatory in England.\u00b9<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/x.com\/i\/status\/2019070670110441574<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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60 years ago today, the world saw the first photos taken from the surface of the Moon! Nine images from Luna 9\u2014the first spacecraft to survive a lunar landing\u2014were received in Moscow Feb 4\u20135, 1966, but also intercepted and released by the Jodrell Bank Observatory in England.\u00b9 https:\/\/x.com\/i\/status\/2019070670110441574<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3105,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3102\/revisions\/3105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}