Originally posted by internos
Yesterday i contacted Don P. Mitchell, the guy who runs mentallandscape.com : i was too curious to listen to his opinion on this:
he kindly replied, and his take is that it's probably part of the landing vehicle which would have crashed near the Luna-13 pod.
Now, one thing that we don't know, are the internal parts, and given the way the landing took place, it looks to be more a crash than a soft landing (talking about the spacecraft, not the lander):
[edit on 10/4/2009 by internos]
The same sort of misidentifications have occurred with debris from Mars landers... ejected canisters and such.
