Japan’s Moon Sniper is Back! New Images and Challenges of the SLIM Mission
In this video, I will talk about Japan’s Moon Sniper explorer, also known as SLIM, which is a robotic lander that was launched in 2023 to investigate a region of the moon where the moon’s mantle is exposed. The lander faced a power crisis after landing upside down on the lunar surface, and had to shut down for 10 days. But thanks to the changing angle of the sun, the lander was able to restore power and communication, and resume its scientific operations. The lander also captured and transmitted new images of the lunar surface using its multi-band camera. These images show us the details and features of the lunar region near the Shioli crater, where the moon’s mantle is exposed. They also show us the location and condition of the lander, which landed about 55 meters away from its target, making it the most precise lunar landing in history. The lander also deployed two probes that were detached from it, and that are still functioning and communicating with the Earth. One of the probes is a transmitter that relays the signals from the lander to the Earth. The other probe is a shape-shifting mini-rover, slightly bigger than a tennis ball, that trundles around the lunar surface and beams images to Earth. This mini-rover was co-developed by the firm behind the Transformer toys, and it can change its shape and size depending on the terrain and obstacles. I will also explain why this mission is so important and exciting, and what it means for the global cooperation and competition in the new lunar space race.
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
01:02 The new images captured by the explorer
02:46 The future prospects of the mission
04:50 The challenges faced by the mission team
07:19 Outro
07:41 Enjoy
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That's awesome. Way To Go Japan!!
That's awesome CGI. Way To Go Japan!!
A great success for Japan and the whole scientific community. Congrats to Japan!
Yea Japan it's a win for science thank Japan saving the day😊❤
Yea Japan it's a win for CGI video science-fiction :) thank Japan saving the CGI day
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@@wiktorchm Ur not serious are you?
u am so serious about Japanise CGI, like a Shogun in toilet ...hay!!@@chungus7355
That was amazing Japan 🇯🇵 David 🚀👌🇬🇧❤️👍👍🇯🇵
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Nice recovery Japan! I am very impressed but not surprised. Thanks for the pictures.
All congrats to Japan! Fantastic!
it's a fantasy alright
Good news indeed for this first ever pinpoint landing within just a few meters of the intended touchdown spot. Congrats, Japan. The mini-rover (a real life transformer) is a whole new way of lunar exploration.
You seem poorly informed for a "reporter". SLIM did not have an engine fail to ignite. One of it's engines broke off it's nozzle below the combustion chamber. They showed pictures that the navigation camera grabbed of it laying on the surface. You showed an animation with the two nozzles, but you can clearly see in the picture of SLIM that it only has one nozzle now. The sideways motion induced by the unbalanced thrust led to the bounce and roll landing.
It is low effort AI generated video. Not a proper source of information.
You’re on KZhead, what do you expect?! Even the actual news media outlets don’t do proper or accurate reporting anymore.
The "you" in this post is definitely AI. Not sure how all that works
"WeLl AcKsHuWaLeY..." That's you. That's what you sound like. Dork.
@@johnnycaillouet3936 I think it more likely that it is AI text to speech, but from a prepared text which someone human is responsible for.
A great success for Japan and the whole scientifiction CGI video community. Congrats to Japan!
Exactly 😄
Hilarious. Just hilarious.
Its solar panels are facing west (if I am not wrong) instead of up; because of that, the panels will get light 1 week out of 2, then 14 days of night where it will probably not survive to restart, then add another week waiting for the sun to go down to the west again... 1 week working, 2 weeks freezing to death, 1 week warming up but not charging.
It depends on if they have a radio active isotope heating it during the lunar nights to keep it warm. Granted it wont have battery power till the solar panel can charge, but if they were smart and put a RTS heater on it then the cold wont hurt it.
Thanks so much for creating and sharing this informative and timely video. Great job. Keep it up.
The probe is not designed to survive the lunar night, so, at 3:39, I don't know where they got the "this mission is expected to last for about six months". The sun sets at the lander's location on January 31st, 2024 which will probably mark the end of the mission. The sun won't rise again on the lander's location until early on February 15th, and with the oddball orientation of the lander, although we can hope, there is some doubt that it will wake up again.
How do you know the probe isn't designed to survive the lunar night? Did you find stats or a diagram on the probe somewhere that showed they didn't add a radio active isotope heater to heat it during the lunar nights? RTS heaters don't need battery power to keep warm. If you got a source please post it so we can read in detail.
fantastic! Human ingenuity at its best!
Great 👍 Welcome back ❤
Thank you NASA for sharing this news with us. Im glad that Japan is at least able to get some photo's and analysis done with their lunar lander. Way to go Jaxa. I'm still saddened that our Lunar lander did not make it.😥 TO THE, NASA 🤗👍🚀
Excellent! Kudos to Japan :)
Great video, thank you 😊
Weird they're naming rocks after dog breeds but otherwise, Way To Go Japan! ✨🌝✨
Cool shape changing probeys, and I agree it's weird about using bow wow name's but go Japan 🌕🐕
When you land a probe on the Moon, you can rocks any name you want 😉
@@zam6877 true that 🐾🐕🦺
Those names indicate the size of each rocks.
@@user-yt7wf2qz2o ah ha, interesting. 🤔 Still kinda weird but with more context, it's also pretty cute! lol 😂
Yes, Fantastic comeback Japan! Keep up the this exciting and awesome work!
I am glad things are working out for this Japanese expedition.
Great comeback little lander!!
👏Japan ❤
A lunar day is 1 month, not 6 months. That is why the sun got to the solar panels in a week. It only has a week of sun left and is expected to be killed by the cold lunar night after that.
Luna day is 14 earth days, I believe. 8:44
@@jakelynbrook Gaaa, the english language ! A lunar "daytime" is 14 earth days ish. A lunar "day" is a month. (like an earth "day" is 24 hours, but only about half of that is "day time")
Its solar panels are facing west if I am not wrong; solar panels get light 1 week out of 2, then 14 days of night where it will probably not survive to restart, then add another week waiting for the sun to go down to the west again...
@@alx-vla4986 Luna Night💀-250c in the Luna South Pole! Now that is teeth chattering 🥶 cold!
Fantastic, can't wait for some 4k footage of the moon and of the earth from the landers position.....
おめでとう！ I like the mini rover. Cool synthesis of functionality & design.
Awesome ! How will the JAXA lander's current mission be affected negatively? Are we losing any significant activities? Thanks for your episode.
Amazing success, congratulations.
Bravo Japan !
Bravo!
Congratulations Japan!
Banzai! Banzai! Banzai!
All these bot comments 😂 “Way to go Japan!” 🤓
Going on about the altimeter and telemetry, the machine is stuck upside down, so these instruments will never be used again. Video shows images of flyovers and so on. It is still stuck.
almost Harakiri Seppuku situation for engineers but now ok 😊😊😊 back in business and little ball robot doin gud job so very nice 😊
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Jiji jaja jojo...Gracias...😅😅
@1:05 Wow! Who'd a thunk!!! What a novel idea for a backup plan. A solar panel that would generate power when exposed to sunlight! If only we had these on Earth!!
Way to adapt and over come : )
Where is the backup plan for correcting landing posture? Nothing?
Supercool 😮😮😮😮
If it doesn't last past three months it's worth a shot to try a reposition if they pull it off
I suggest waiting for 3mo before an upright attempt,,, to get max data in this configuration, then try with little to lose.
2/26 I can't believe they Re-RE started SLIM again...
Be great to hear what future design alterations this fortuitous mishap has made probable. Will Japan launch another similar design probe? Would they consider a rescue robot? They have proven the ability to pinpoint a landing.
A revised engine design that doesn’t lose a nozzle would be high on the list. This is the second time it’s happened to a JAXA probe.
Whoever wrote the script relied heavily on REPETITION in this report... repetition is a waste of our time. Be concise, be precise and be brief !!!
It hasn't got enough propellant to take off and land again. But has it enough to at least turn itself into a better attitude? (I presume not, as surely they'd have done that already - either not enough propellant, or the various nozzles in the wrong position to be any use in righting itself.)
The remaining nozzle is pointing up. Maybe they could dig a hole
why didnt they give the mini rover a tiny solar cell? seems like it had the space for a couple watt panel for trickle charging while powered off
Did I miss something, how did they tip it up the correct way so the solar panels were toward the sun? At 1:11 it says it landed upside down so how are the instruments able to see the surface?
It did land upside down. That is why it had to wait until the sun was in the right angle to best light the solar panel in it’s actual position.
Yes so Im surprised the instruments still worked ok in an upside down orientation even if the batteries were able to get charge@@andreboudreau6474
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@ 2:46 and this little bug is casting a shadow that can be seen from earth yet nothing around it casts a shadow? Crazy...
The lunar night won't begin for 6 months? Try Feb 2nd which is today. Lunar day is 14 days. It landed on Jan 19th. The lander has no heaters to keep electronics warm during lunar night so will probably not revive. This mission is over
How did it 'land' upside down like that without obliterating itself?
Congratulation Japan !!
Can it Right itself ?
Yeah, I am so glad that the lander has come back to life due to sunlight falling on the lander's solar cells.
The Sun has set at the lander location. There is no sunlight on the panels. Because the panels can only receive sunlight for 1 week of the 2 week day it won't see sunlight for another 3 weeks. Since there are no heaters on boards the electronics will freeze solid during the 14 day lunar night. This mission is over
Why all the interest in the moon again after all these years, they must be something very valuable .
It's because we are running out of cream cheese.
The moon has no loony lefty globalist parasites or rubber boat invaders. So its a great place for us superior white intelligent right of centre folk to relax & jesticulate about the moozeylooms wailing WANKMAN song & the black blm's deficating while walking in public.
@@finscreenname I had a similar reply lined up but you beat me to it. I hope Wallace and Gromit have left plenty for the rest of us.
Water
Is it upside down or not?
Isn't a lunar night just half of a month? Seems that there was some error
Good point. I'll stop watching the video then.
How did make it upright again.
It hasn't moved, the sunlight angle relative to the lander changed as the Moon and the Earth moved in their orbits.
Japan claims that the landing of SLIM sideways was by design to get a NEW angle to look at the Moon.
😮Goodday tue the mon
Help me out here,… So is it sitting flat?,… or is it upended. You show it both ways,… WTW!
Images of it the right way up are graphics, probably created before the launch. There is at least one image taken by one of the small probes it deployed and that image shows the lander didn't settle the right way up. It was designed to topple to the correct attitude after touch down but either it toppled the wrong way or too far, maybe it even bounced. The end result, the solar panel was in shadow until the relative sun angle changed due to the orbits of the Moon and the Earth.
there was no way japan's super electronic prowess could have failed
They didn't fail. One of the two descent engines failed just before landing, ejecting its nozzle, so the spacecraft ended up almost nose-down in the wrong orientation, preventing the solar panels from getting sunlight until recently.
thanks for the info@@davidknisely3003
It's only going to last for one day earth day that is fourteen moon days which means only till the end of January 2024 .
I guess you mis-typed. It's one lunar day which is 14 earth days
The US has robots on the moon. Probably gave it a helping hand.
The US has no operational device on the moon. Their last landing of anything was the Apollo 17 lander in 1972.
where are your new images?
If it's position is unstable maybe the rover could give it a nudge.
That would be like a baseball trying to nudge a refrigerator.
@@proto-geek248How many Watts can we get out of the 'baseball'?
@@johnwilliams3555 My research indicates I don't know.
Maybe the rovers could use space lasers
LOL, a "power issue?" It was upside-down, JAXA! Come on! That's about like the now famous "unscheduled disassembly" for a rocket blowing up! 😂 Thanks for the factual information, with no ... _interesting_ descriptive terms. 😂 It's appreciated. ❤❤
"It had a solar panel that can generate electricity when exposed to sunlight" - oh don't tell me Mr. AI...
I'm sure Japan has 8k cameras, so why did they send a Polaroid? Thos pics look not very good.
32kbps is max speed. As far as I know NASA highly modify their images
Major problem is Asteroids hit the moon, small particles. it doesn't burn up and hits the moon.
There are always risks
That's why Apollo 11 blew up on the Moon. All those asteroids
very strange ? 55 years so long...why never even 1 rover send back to " APOLLO LANDING SITE ??? " ( or it is area 51 ??? ) 🤔🤔🤔
APOD said the lunar night starts tomorrow. SLIM also launched on Sept. 6, 2023 (Sept. 7 JST). Could you clarify? Thank you, great video!!
Its only going to last for one day earth day that is fourteen moon days which means only till the end of January 2024 .
@Kim_Jong_Un_2023 one lunar day is fourteen earth days.
@@Kim_Jong_Un_2023Uh, that's backwards one moon day is 14 Earth Days.
@@Kim_Jong_Un_2023 14 earth days = 1 moon night. It starts Feb. 1 I think. I looked it up haha. Thank you so much! I appreciate your reply
One lunar day is 28 Earth days long, same as one lunar month. Each lunar day is 14 Earth days of daylight and 14 Earth days of darkness. Hope this is clear.
The Optimum temperature for LITHIUM BATTERIES is 14 - 15 degrees Celsius. By day the Moon is 120 degrees Celsius and by night it is MINUS 130 degrees Celsus. Are investors being duped in some type of Ponzi Scheme?
55 years...so long , why never even 1 rover send back to " APOLLO LANDING SITE " ???
This video does not inform its audiences if the SLIM repositioned itself so that it could glide on the moon surface now that solar power is back on. I wonder how much information the SLIM really provides if it remains in the same position for 6 months?
Glide on the surface? It will remain in the same position for the next 600 years. It is dead
It took them 4 months to get to the Moon? Did they get lost?
In 1969, it took 4 days and 6 hrs to get to the moon and it took Japan 4 months. WoW!
Silly. They did not waste anything. They used.
The reason was that it didn't use the similar route that Apollo spacecraft had during their missions. It has been explained that instead of a direct route it took an extraordinary trajectory if compared to Apollo missions. "SLIM will be taking a long, roundabout journey of at least four months that requires less propellant, and then spend a month orbiting the moon before attempting to land on the surface."
@@turblijura They got lost for 4 months, then crash the thing upside down. That's what they get for trespassing on OUR Moon. We discovered it first. The Moon is now a colony of Texas (& we also own the oil drilling rights). Japan now owes us money for trespassing & littering!
Jatta! Way to go Nippon!
Send photos from the Appolo missions now that you have "landed" on the moon
Apollo program communications: NASCOM (NASA Ground Communications System) ➡It costs a huge amount of money. Other lunar module communications: Moon to Earth = 192kbps/Earth to Moon = 4kbps➡ It takes time.
Elon said that his company will have humans on the moon by 2023,that didn't happen, smh
everywhere they are trumpeting what a great success it is and that the photos have been published. All you can see is some blurry stuff and a whole lot of animation and computer graphics
next Jaxa mission: Seppuku
Why?
who dose all of AI images and where dose one learn how to do it?
A little upside-down turtle looking down. That's sad.
Kerbal space program...
Why there is yellow foil over this land rover?
It's a thermal insulation material which is commonly used in space probes and satellites.
They ran out of Reynolds.
And please understand that those images are just artistic renditions. NO ONE is photographing the lander.
@@rickkwitkoski1976 Actually, the mini rover the lander released has a camera that took this one photo of the lander.
It flipped because it lost a nozzle.
which is real images? a lot of CG images, i am lost. 2024 and they cant take satisfatory images from moon still.
I seriously doubt this lander will provide much that is new. If anything.
These Lunar Landers etc always look like something a child would make , how about some roll bars ,wheels or whatever to orientate it and a fleet of drones attached , a colab with non nerds .(I like the probes thought)
How exactly would your fleet of drones fly in zero atmosphere ?
Lego built it.
How about an enhanced ball-bot type thing that could bounce and/or eject lunar dust (possibly ground-finer and/or static-electrically charged (as lunar dust tends to get anyway) using existing locomotion components) and use that as propellant ejecta, maybe continuously (if charged) or in impulses (-> "bouncy hovering"). Ejected by spring coil or pneumatics, ultimately recharged from solar (via own mini panel and/or mother-craft).
They need to copy the weebles-wobble-but-they-wont-fall-down design
Upside down means succes. Maybe they forgot to design leg or arm to help it .But better her US dady!
This is a long shot but before the ball dies they should place it where it will reflect the sun on to the solar cells you would have to put it near vut at an spot where its not in the shade of lander. Even better if you could shape it in an mirror or reflect the best you can do. And when it dies it may serve you well. Good luck.... oh and if you can bypass the charger and go straight to bat with connections from solar cells. It will charge with very little light. But then you may over charge, so it has to be monitored
It's the size of a baseball. It couldn't reflect enough light to do any good
Why do they show only one allegedly real picture with the moon lander upside down taken by the ball robot and many cartoon pictures? If the lander is working now, and two robots move around the lander, we should expect to see many pictures or even videos. Why probes from the Mars which is much further than the Moon send a lot pictures and videos of a very good quality while Indian and Japanese probes send pictures of a very bad quality and no videos? It looks like American lunar program staged by Kubrick. Don't you think so?
In the first place, this "SLIM spacecraft" is a spacecraft whose primary mission is to successfully make a pinpoint landing for the first time in the world. Although it is equipped with a special camera to analyze rocks and sand for its second mission, it does not have a high-performance camera. No need for high-resolution cameras that aren't necessary for the mission. The small autonomous robot's mission is just to take a few photos, and it doesn't need a long battery life. The small robot's mission has already been successfully completed and it has stopped functioning.
Kon'nichiwa Japan
the lander is bathed in radiation ,there needs to be a way to use space radiation to power the batteries ?
Very strange that not one person involved in the designing of these Lunar missions by the various nations, not to mention NASA itself has neglected to contemplate the idea of incorporating a flickering beacon of light that would be visible from here on Earth into their missions. It seems to me that even the cheapest of dollar store solar powered garden lights would suffice, well, naturally a cheap dollar store light on steroids designed for the harsh varying temps on the Lunar surface - a beacon of light naturally would afford one and all the opportunity to look up and marvel at in wonder, makes no sense that it has yet to be accomplished. Where's the lighthouse, the early explorers always put up the lighthouse upon reaching their destination?
Do you have any idea just HOW BLASTED FAR AWAY THE MOON IS??? No simple "beacon" would be visible at that distance (239,000 miles), as any such light source would have to be incredibly bright and very directional to be seen from that far away. We once fired two very high powered lasers into large Earth-based telescopes which were pointed at the Surveyor 7 lander near the crater Tycho while it was operating, and its TV camera was just able to detect them. There is no valid reason to haul all that equipment and electrical power source all the way to the moon just to repeat that experiment from there.
@@davidknisely3003 Wonderful news! In that ' incredibly bright ' lights are now common place. And check this out,,,,if the space agency involved shaped the ' incredibly bright ' light in the shape of a corporate logo such as Mcdonald's, Apple, Coca~Cola or Westinghouse Solar Lights R~Us Inc,... the sponsored corporation would no doubt fund the entire Lunar mission. Yw! That's the way the real world works. ( And B.S,....any flicking beacon would be visible,...esp during a crescent moon when half is shaded, imo even a small mirror strategically placed upon the Lunar surface would afford those with the smallest of telescopes the opportunity to view a flicker from time to time from here on Earth as the ' incredibly bright ' Sun interacts with the mirror. )
The Apollo missions dropped mirrors which could bounce back lasers
@@wnose Imo the laser reflector story in and of itself casts suspicion upon the entire Apollo program in that no reflectors were necessary due to the obvious fact that the Moon in and of itself is a reflector, according to NASA the reflective nature of the Moon was how they originally calculated the distance to the Lunar surface. So, there's that, where is the common sense, no reflectors required, adding a reflector to a weight conscious mission would be absurd, would be the equivalent to bringing sand to the beach.
@@jaden0019 you could get a reflection off a pool of water in the morning but no one is relying on that on a daily basis. Since a mirror works better. NASA left the mirrors since they were specifically designed for scientific purposes. Just like how we use real mirrors and not puddles of water.
You have a bunch of incorrect information in this video. Do your research BETTER! Lunar daylight lasts about 14 days, not 6-12 months. They may have about 6 DAYS left before lunar night. And it is the SLIM lander, not sniper. I gave up watching after the 6 month error. And someone else here mentioned you incorrectly stated the engine failed to ignite, not that the bell nozzle broke away during firing.
If life throws you on your face, learn a new position.
I can not believe people rally think this is real.
Six months... that's it. Just for pictures and a signal. Sounds like they wasted their money.
hmm, let's name some rocks...😏