Japan's 'Moon Sniper' lands on moon, but suffers power problem
Japan's 'Moon Sniper' lands on moon, but has power problem | Black hole photo confirms Einstein's general relativity | Contact lost with doomed Peregrine moon lander
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Japan made history with its SLIM lunar lander, which made the country's 1st successful soft-landing on the moon today, but the probe has suffered a power problem shortly after touchdown. SLIM, called a "Moon Sniper" for its precision landing technology, landed near its target but its solar array is not generating power and its battery will soon run out.
The second image of the first black hole ever to be pictured by humanity shows that its shadow persists a year on. Just like in the April 2017 image, this second picture of the supermassive black hole, known as M87*, shows a glowing golden ring representing matter swirling around the black hole being heated to extreme temperatures. Still at the heart of this ring is a dark shadow, as predicted by Einstein's 1915 theory of gravity, known as general relativity.
The end has apparently come for the troubled Peregrine moon lander. Astrobotic lost contact with Peregrine at around 3:50 p.m. EST (2050 GMT) on Thursday (Jan. 18). "While this indicates the vehicle completed its controlled re-entry over open water in the South Pacific at 4:04 p.m. EST, we await independent confirmation from government entities," the company wrote.
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The moon makes for a handy guide to locate Uranus in the night sky tonight (Jan. 19). The elusive Uranus, the second-most distant planet in our solar system, will be just a few degrees away from the moon, making tonight an excellent time to get a glimpse of the ice giant. Here's where and when to look.
Reflect on this! NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) recently bounced a laser off India's Vikram moon lander, marking a space-communications first. "We've showed that we can locate our retroreflector on the surface from the moon's orbit," said Xiaoli Sun, who led the team at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland
SpaceX's third private astronaut mission for Axiom Space is en route to the International Space Station after a successful launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday afternoon. Called Ax-3, the mission is SpaceX's first all-European flight and includes Turkey's 1st-ever astronaut.
Venus Aerospace, a hypersonics pioneer aimed at developing reusable hypersonic flight platforms, recently achieved one of the longest sustained tests of a rotating detonation rocket engine in collaboration with NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. See how it worked in this video!
There are scenes in the new movie "I.S.S." that could be mistaken for NASA footage filmed aboard the real International Space Station (ISS). And that's a good thing, because if the title of your movie is "I.S.S." and you set all of your action aboard the ISS, then you better make sure that the ISS you show on screen matches the real International Space Station on which it is based.
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