Japan’s SLIM moon lander surprisingly survived a second lunar night
View of the moon’s surface taken from the SLIM lander’s tilted position JAXA Most landers we send to the moon operate for a single lunar day – about two Earth weeks – before being overtaken and killed by the extreme cold of lunar night. But Japan’s Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) has now survived […]
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