{"id":8552,"date":"2024-02-27T13:22:06","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T13:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/?p=8552"},"modified":"2024-02-27T13:22:07","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T13:22:07","slug":"japans-lunar-lander-comes-back-to-life-following-lunar-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/?p=8552","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s lunar lander comes back to life following lunar night"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"850\" height=\"474\" src=\"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/20290431191708955941.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8553\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/20290431191708955941.jpg 850w, https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/20290431191708955941-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/20290431191708955941-768x428.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Tokyo: Japan&#8217;s Moon lander has produced another surprise by waking up after the two-week lunar night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, the unmanned Smart Lander for Investigating Moon touched down last month at a wonky angle that left its solar panels facing the wrong way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the sun&#8217;s angle shifted, it came back to life for two days and carried out scientific observations of a crater with a high-spec camera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It went to sleep again as darkness returned and, since it was &#8220;not designed for the harsh lunar nights&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It said that SLIM succeeded in surviving a night on the Moon&#8217;s surface while maintaining its communication function but communications were terminated after a short time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It said preparations are being made to resume operations when instrument temperatures become sufficiently cooled.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo: Japan&#8217;s Moon lander has produced another surprise by waking up after the two-week lunar night. According to Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, the unmanned Smart Lander for Investigating Moon touched&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8554,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8552\/revisions\/8554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}