JAXA posted to X on Wednesday alongside a new image of its likely permanent, inverted vantage point near the Shioli crater. JAXA also noted that, because the sun is currently high above the lunar ...

On March 1 at 3am JST, the sun set on the Shioli Crater and #SLIM re-entered a period of dormancy. Although the probability of a failure increases with the repeated severe temperature cycles ...

Japan’s Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) spacecraft landed on its face near Shioli crater, on the southeastern side of the lunar nearside, on January 19. Mission controllers worried ...

The spacecraft had landed about 60 yards away from its target, near the Shioli crater, a region covered in volcanic rocks. It's the most precise landing compared to previous moon missions that ...

It remains unknown if the probe and its spectroscope will survive the severe cold night temperatures and be able to "wake up" once sunlight returns.The spacecraft had landed about 60 yards away from ...