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thewayneThis is pretty spectacular. It suffered a landing mishap when one of its engines failed and it toppled over to land on its face. Still, it got useful data - and the landing itself was quite a success in that it landed within a 100 meter target where it was supposed to. For an unmanned probe launched over 200,000 miles away, that's pretty much a bulls eye!
And then night came. It wasn't designed to survive the night, and the ground crew were resigned to that.
But when the next lunar day came, two weeks later, it woke up!
In the words of Monty Python, there was much rejoicing.
But then the next lunar night arrived, and the ground crew expected that to be the end of the probe.
Then two weeks later, the next lunar day arrived, and it woke up again!
It's not in that great of shape as it has been taking a beating with the lunar nights at over 200 degrees below zero Fahrenheit and the lunar days over 200 degrees above, but as I said before: they must have partnered with Timex because it's taking a licking and still ticking!
https://gizmodo.com/japans-slim-moon-lander-just-wont-die-1851371961
And then night came. It wasn't designed to survive the night, and the ground crew were resigned to that.
But when the next lunar day came, two weeks later, it woke up!
In the words of Monty Python, there was much rejoicing.
But then the next lunar night arrived, and the ground crew expected that to be the end of the probe.
Then two weeks later, the next lunar day arrived, and it woke up again!
It's not in that great of shape as it has been taking a beating with the lunar nights at over 200 degrees below zero Fahrenheit and the lunar days over 200 degrees above, but as I said before: they must have partnered with Timex because it's taking a licking and still ticking!
https://gizmodo.com/japans-slim-moon-lander-just-wont-die-1851371961
