Japan Moon probe survives second lunar night

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Japan's SLIM Moon lander defies expectations, awakening after a frigid lunar night, transmitting new images back to Earth

This handout photo released on January 25, 2024 from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and credited to JAXA, Takara Tomy, Sony Group Corporation and Doshisha University shows an image of the lunar surface taken and transmitted by LEV-2 “SORA-Q” the transformable lunar surface robot “SORA-Q” , installed on the private company’s lunar module for the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon mission, after landing on the Moon on January 20.

But the lightweight spacecraft landed at a wonky angle that left its solar panels facing the wrong way. Thursday’s news came after an uncrewed American lander called Odysseus — the first private spaceship to successfully land on the Moon — had failed to wake up. About three hours after its nail-biting touchdown on January 20, JAXA switched the lander off remotely to save power, having received technical and image data from its descent.

 

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