Japan simply turned the most recent nation to arrange camp on the moon — though, how onerous it really touched down continues to be a little bit unclear.
Sure, it is a huge deal … Japan is now the fifth nation to get some form of spacecraft up on the massive ball of cheese within the sky — touchdown their “Moon Sniper” explorer Friday … a part of which they streamed stay to doc the momentous event.
The query at this level, nevertheless, is whether or not the explorer crashed onto the moon … or if it efficiently made contact. There are conflicting experiences on what the precise case is.
We suppose we’ll know quickly sufficient — however in any case, it is cool to see the human race proceed to try to discover our moon. This mission known as SLIM (Good Lander for Investigating Moon) and this launch of Japan’s robotic went down method again in September.
The opposite nations which have been to the moon … Russia, China, India and, in fact, the US of A. We’re the one ones to get people up there … nobody’s been again since.
Anyway, cool house information for positive … and only one larger step for mankind into the good past.