1. Subscribersonhouse
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    17 Jan '24 12:45
    https://phys.org/news/2024-01-high-japan-moon-sniper-mission.html

    I hope this one succeeds!
  2. SubscriberSuzianne
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    25 Jan '24 10:29
    @sonhouse said
    https://phys.org/news/2024-01-high-japan-moon-sniper-mission.html

    I hope this one succeeds!
    Looks like they made it.

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/japan-slim-lunar-lander-pinpoint-touchdown-battery-problems-may-end-soon/
  3. Subscribersonhouse
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    27 Jan '24 05:20
    @Suzianne
    One report has it landing upside down but they did get a couple of rovers to roll around outside the probe.
    NASA is working on one also to hunt for water ice in the south pole of Luna, Artemis III, it is being built now not sure when it is due to launch, probably in a couple of years.

    https://www.nasa.gov/missions/artemis/artemis-iii/
  4. Subscribermlb62
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    01 Feb '24 13:14
    There is a lot of evidence that the moon is hollow. !!
  5. Subscribersonhouse
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    01 Feb '24 17:34
    @mlb62
    It's not made of green cheese, it is made of LIMBERGER and the world knows it.
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    02 Feb '24 17:45
    @mlb62 said
    There is a lot of evidence that the moon is hollow. !!
    If you want a discussion in the "Science" Forum, please referece any of the evidence. Not a video, but a clear thesis. Preferably you quote a paper published in a scientific journal.
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    02 Feb '24 17:50
    @Ponderable
    Right, like there would be any evidence ANY planet or moon is hollow. Considering stuff accumulates from the dust cloud that begat our solar system they BUILD from the center out.
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    12 Mar '24 07:53
    @sonhouse said
    https://phys.org/news/2024-01-high-japan-moon-sniper-mission.html

    I hope this one succeeds!
    In fact due to a small time window end of febraury all mission targets were fulfilled.
    * soft landing (in so far as the device survived the landing and was still operable)
    * precise landing (55 m meters within target [crtierion was 100 m])
    * investigations using multi-spectral camera
    * LEV-1 (lunar excursion vehicle) performed several jumps
    * LEV-2 succesfully deployed (from this one was the fotograph of the lander)



    And maybe there is more to come in the last week of March.
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    @Ponderable
    I think they said the laser rangefinder pooped out and they had to use alternate methods to find the altitude and looks like that didn't work well, landed going too fast.
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