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Zond 8, a formal member of the Soviet Zond program and unmanned version of Soyuz 7K-L1 manned Moon-flyby spacecraft, was launched from an Earth orbiting platform, Tyazheliy Sputnik (70-088B), towards the Moon. The announced objectives of Zond 8 were investigations of the Moon and circumlunar space and testing of onboard systems and units. The spacecraft obtained photographs of Earth on 21 October from a distance of 64,480 km. The spacecraft transmitted flight images of Earth for three days. Zond 8 flew past the Moon on October 24, 1970, at a distance of 1110.4 km and obtained both black-and-white and color photographs of the lunar surface. Scientific measurements were also obtained during the flight. Zond 8 reentered the Earth's atmosphere and splashed down 730 km SE of the Chagos Archipelago, in the Indian Ocean on 27 October 1970, 24 km from the USSR recovery ship ''Taman''.〔("Zond 8, Recovery Ship, Miss Distance" ), ''Soviet and Russian lunar exploration By Brian Harvey - page 218, Recovery Ship and Miss Distance.''〕〔("Zond 8, Landing Point" ), ''NASA Solar System Exploration - Zond 8, Splashdown area.''〕 ==See also== *Splashdown (spacecraft landing) *Timeline of artificial satellites and space probes 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Zond 8」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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