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Luna 24: Mission, Spacecraft & Detection of water in returned samples
Luna 24 was a robotic probe of the Soviet Union's Luna programme. The 24th mission of the Luna series of spacecraft, the mission of the Luna 24 probe was the third Soviet mission to return lunar soil samples from the Moon (the first two sample return missions were Luna 16 and Luna 20). The probe landed in Mare Crisium (Sea of Crises). The mission…
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Luna 24 topic overview
The analysis highlights Mission, Spacecraft and Detection of water in returned samples as prominent areas in the source structure around Luna 24.
Related topics
31
Source areas
4
Connected nodes
35
Extracted relationships
80
Concept neighborhoods
19
Bridge connections
35
What this topic covers Research coverage
Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.
Mission · 18 topics
Overview · 9 topics
Spacecraft · 3 topics
Detection of water in returned samples · 1 topics
Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.
Key facts & relationships
High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.
Aposelene altitude
115 km (71 mi)
Bus
Ye-8-5M
Contractor
Krunichev
COSPAR ID
1976-081A
Inclination
120.0°
Landing date
22 August 1976, 05:55 UTC · 18 August 1976, 06:36 UTC
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Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.
How Luna 24 connects Entity context
Entity context groups extracted connections by relationship type. Counts show recurrence in the analyzed source; the examples are research signals, not claims about importance.
The extracted context around Luna 24 shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Luna 24 → After, August, China's Chang'e, December, Earth's, East, Exact, For, IAU, Initial, It, Lev, Luna, Lunar, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, Mare Crisium, Moon, NASA, North, October Another extracted example is Luna 24 → Blog, Failure, LROC, Luna, Mare Crisium, May, Media, NSSDC Master Catalog, Soviet Luna Probe, Soviet Moon Lander Discovered, Success, Technology Review, The Moon, The Physics, Water, Wikimedia CommonsZarya, Wiktionary-logo-en-v2. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.
Luna 24
Top relations
related to Mission· 28
Luna 24 → After, August, China's Chang'e, December, Earth's, East, Exact, For, IAU, Initial, It, Lev, Luna, Lunar, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, Mare Crisium, Moon, NASA, North, October
related to External links· 17
Luna 24 → Blog, Failure, LROC, Luna, Mare Crisium, May, Media, NSSDC Master Catalog, Soviet Luna Probe, Soviet Moon Lander Discovered, Success, Technology Review, The Moon, The Physics, Water, Wikimedia CommonsZarya, Wiktionary-logo-en-v2
Luna 24 relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Relationships are represented as Subject → Predicate → Object triples. Confidence describes extraction strength, not the real-world importance of a relationship; lower-confidence rows may be contextual rather than explicit.
TTTA extracted 80 structured relationships around Luna 24. Examples in this analysis include Luna 24 → Aposelene altitude → 115 km (71 mi) and Luna 24 → Bus → Ye-8-5M. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.
12°42′52″N 62°12′35″E / 12.7145°N 62.2097°E / 12.7145; 62.2097, Mare Crisium
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Launch date
9 August 1976, 15:04:12 UTC
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Launch mass
5,800 kg (12,800 lb)
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Launch site
Baikonur 81/23
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Manufacturer
NPO Lavochkin
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Mission duration
12 days, 14 hours and 51 minutes
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Mission type
Lunar sample return
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Operator
Soviet space program
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Orbital insertion
14 August 1976
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Orbits
~48
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Period
1 hour 59 minutes
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Periselene altitude
115 km (71 mi)
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Reference system
Selenocentric
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Return launch
19 August 1976, 05:25 UTC
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Rocket
Proton-K/DM s/n 288-02
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Sample mass
170.1 g (6.00 oz)
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SATCAT no.
9272
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Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods
Concept neighborhoods group terms that sit near one another in the extracted graph. They are useful for discovering adjacent language and context, but proximity does not by itself imply a factual relationship.
The concept neighborhoods around Luna 24 bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Soviet, Lunar and Utc. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.
Luna 24
Soviet
Lunar
Utc
Return
August
Crisium
Mare
Spacecraft
Sample
Moon
Mission
Probe
luna 24
Soviet
Lunar
Utc
Return
August
Crisium
Mare
Spacecraft
Sample
Moon
Mission
Probe
luna programme
Soviet
Lunar
Utc
Return
August
Crisium
Mare
Spacecraft
Sample
Moon
Mission
Probe
lunar soil
Mission
Sample
Soviet
Two
Spacecraft
Samples
August
Crisium
Mare
Probe
Return
Returned
luna 16
Soviet
Lunar
Utc
Return
August
Crisium
Mare
Spacecraft
Sample
Moon
Mission
Probe
luna 20
Soviet
Lunar
Utc
Return
August
Crisium
Mare
Spacecraft
Sample
Moon
Mission
Probe
mare crisium
Crisium
Mare
Luna
Landed
Launch
Sample
Mission
Probe
Spacecraft
Lunar
Soviet
Return
luna 23
Soviet
Lunar
Utc
Return
August
Crisium
Mare
Spacecraft
Sample
Moon
Mission
Probe
Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges
Semantic bridges connect parts of the graph that would otherwise be more separate. A bridge is a structural signal in this analysis, not a claim that the two topic areas are equivalent.
For Luna 24, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Luna 24 with Mission. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.
Number of nodes, edges, triples, density and central hubs. Use it to gauge the size and connectivity of the map.
Luna 24
Nodes36
Edges35
Triples80
Avg. degree1.94
Density0.055556
Components1
Source & methodology
TTTA analyzes the structure around Luna 24 to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Mission, Spacecraft & Detection of water in returned samples, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.
