{"id":12443,"date":"2024-01-19T14:01:40","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T19:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=12443"},"modified":"2024-01-19T14:02:12","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T19:02:12","slug":"slim-landed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=12443","title":{"rendered":"SLIM landed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan&#8217;s SLIM (<a href=\"https:\/\/global.jaxa.jp\/projects\/sas\/slim\/\">Smart Lander for Investigating Moon<\/a>) made it to the lunar surface. Well&#8230; sort of. It accomplished its main goal of a targeted soft landing.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12444\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/SLIM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/SLIM.jpg 800w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/SLIM-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/SLIM-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, its solar panels are non-operational. It&#8217;s unclear for now why (one speculation I read is that the lander may have tipped over after landing). Its batteries can power it only for a few hours. They&#8217;re hoping that perhaps later in the lunar day, or in a next lunar cycle, the lander will get sunlight from the right direction to be able to recharge its batteries after all.<\/p>\n<p>Even so, Japan is now officially the fifth country to have landed a spacecraft on the Moon that remained (at least partially) operational on the lunar surface.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=12443' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan&#8217;s SLIM (Smart Lander for Investigating Moon) made it to the lunar surface. Well&#8230; sort of. It accomplished its main goal of a targeted soft landing. Unfortunately, its solar panels are non-operational. It&#8217;s unclear for now why (one speculation I read is that the lander may have tipped over after landing). Its batteries can power <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=12443' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space","category-26-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12443"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12446,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12443\/revisions\/12446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}