The Russian Luna-25 spacecraft has taken the first image of the Moon surface after entering the lunar orbit, Roscosmos told reporters.

"The Luna-25 spacecraft, flying in a circular orbit as the Moon's artificial satellite, has taken pictures of the lunar surface with television cameras of the STS-L system. The image, taken today at 08:23 Moscow time, shows the southern polar crater Zeeman on the far side of the Moon. The coordinates of the crater center are 75 degrees south and 135 degrees west," the state corporation said.

Roscosmos said the Zeeman crater is of great interest to researchers. Its rim rises eight kilometers above its relatively flat floor.

"Also, the Luna-25 spacecraft today carried out observations with the help of the ADRON-LR and PML devices that had been built by the Russian Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the ARIES-L device that had been built by the Russian Space Research Institute in cooperation with the Astron Electronics company. Measurements were performed on fluxes of gamma rays and neutrons emitted from the Moon surface, and the parameters of the space plasma and gas-dust exosphere in the lunar orbit were obtained," the state corporation said.