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Japan Lander Wakes Up Again, Survives Another Freezing Two Weeks On Moon

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JAXA has dubbed SLIM the “Moon Sniper” for its precision landing technology. (File) Tokyo: Japan’s unmanned Moon lander woke up after surviving a second frigid, two-week lunar night and transmitted new images back to Earth, the country’s space agency said Thursday. “We received a response from SLIM last night and confirmed that SLIM had successfully…

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Japan Moon lander put to sleep after surviving lunar night

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This image provided by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)/Takara Tomy/Sony Group Corporation/Doshisha University shows an image taken by a Lunar Excursion Vehicle 2 (LEV-2) of a robotic moon rover called Smart Lander for Investigating Moon, or SLIM, on the moon. File. | Photo Credit: AP Japan’s Moon lander has been put back to sleep…

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