Almost a year ago (Jan 20, 2024) one little #JAXA lunar lander made a successful soft Moon landing... on its nose... š .
And then promptly refused to stop analysing rocks through 3 lunar night that should have frozen its metal behind solid.
Operations for. the SLIM mission are now over, and the team held a press briefing summarising the mission. The translated materials are here:
https://www.isas.jaxa.jp/en/topics/files/SLIM-press-briefing-20241226.pdf
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