Japan's lunar lander has defied the odds to survive a third lunar night, surprising even its designers. Officials from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) said Wednesday that the Smart ...
Somehow, Japan’s Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) has survived three lunar nights, an astonishing feat. Moon ...
Why does it use such a crappy camera? That so called crappy camera is operating under conditions that it was not designed for, i.e. Temperatures can fall to minus 170 degrees Celsius (minus 274 ...
SLIM, which was tasked with testing Japan's pinpoint landing technology and collecting geological data and images, was not ...
Japan's Slim Moon lander has survived a third long, cold lunar night, waking up to snap some brand new shots of the Moon's surface.
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Japan's Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) has woken up again, having survived three lunar nights. A post on social media from the lander's X account confirmed that once more, SLIM had defied ...
Japan’s first moon lander has survived a third freezing lunar night, the country’s space agency said, after receiving an image from the device three months after it landed on the surface.