JAXA Has A Moon Mission

A lunar surface scan mosaic image captured by the SLIM-mounted MBC.

Credit: JAXA
Japan reestablished communications with its toppled Moon probe, which successfully touched down—in an unplanned orientation—last week. The Smart Lander for Investigating the Moon (SLIM) mission fulfilled its primary objective as a tech demo for pinpoint landing techniques. But the Japan Aerospace...

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