"NASA's LRO Captures Japan's SLIM Moon Lander's Historic Landing"
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NASA released images of Japan's SLIM moon probe taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, showing a change in reflectance due to engine exhaust after a successful pinpoint landing, making Japan the fifth country to land a spacecraft on the moon. Although SLIM faced orientation and power generation issues, it managed to deploy a robot and take an image of itself on the Moon's surface.
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