{"id":62162,"date":"2024-02-26T21:11:55","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T12:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/26\/japan-moon-lander-survive-lunar-slim-spacecraft"},"modified":"2024-02-26T21:11:55","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T12:11:55","slug":"japans-moon-lander-survives-two-week-lunar-night-after-wonky-landing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=62162","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s moon lander survives two-week lunar night after wonky landing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unmanned Slim spacecraft responds to signal from Earth after touching down at awkward angle in January<\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s moon lander has responded to a signal from Earth, suggesting it survived the two-week lunar night, the country\u2019s space agency has said.<\/p>\n<p>The unmanned Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (Slim) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2024\/jan\/19\/japan-slim-spacecraft-lands-on-moon-but-struggles-to-generate-power\">touched down last month<\/a> at a wonky angle that left its solar panels facing the wrong way. But as the sun\u2019s angle shifted, it powered up for two days and carried out scientific observations of a crater with a hi-spec camera.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/26\/japan-moon-lander-survive-lunar-slim-spacecraft\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unmanned Slim spacecraft responds to signal from Earth after touching down at awkward angle in JanuaryJapan\u2019s moon lander has responded to a signal from Earth, suggesting it survived the two-week lunar night, the country\u2019s space agency has said.The unm&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":602,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88,299,297,295,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-science","category-space","category-the-moon","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/602"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62163,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62162\/revisions\/62163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}