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@sonhouse saidLooks like they made it.
https://phys.org/news/2024-01-high-japan-moon-sniper-mission.html
I hope this one succeeds!
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/japan-slim-lunar-lander-pinpoint-touchdown-battery-problems-may-end-soon/
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@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/
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@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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@sonhouse saidIn fact due to a small time window end of febraury all mission targets were fulfilled.
https://phys.org/news/2024-01-high-japan-moon-sniper-mission.html
I hope this one succeeds!
* 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.