Japan’s moon mission: Fifth country to land on the lunar surface
Jan 20, 2024 #JapanMoonLanding #SLIMMission #LunarExploration
Japan has become the fifth country to land a spacecraft on the moon. Its space ag
Jan 20, 2024 #JapanMoonLanding #SLIMMission #LunarExploration
Japan has become the fifth country to land a spacecraft on the moon. Its space agency guided a module called 'Smart Lander for Investigating Moon', or SLIM, for short, to the lunar surface earlier on Friday. But it's still not clear if Tokyo's plan to bring down the module at a precise location was successful.
Al Jazeera's Colin Baker reports.