Japan simply grew to become the newest nation to arrange camp on the moon — though, how onerous it really touched down remains to be a bit of unclear.
Sure, it is a massive deal … Japan is now the fifth nation to get some sort of spacecraft up on the massive ball of cheese within the sky — touchdown their “Moon Sniper” explorer Friday … a part of which they streamed dwell to doc the momentous event.
The query at this level, nonetheless, 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 international locations which were to the moon … Russia, China, India and, after all, the US of A. We’re the one ones to get people up there … nobody’s been again since.
Anyway, cool area information for certain … and only one greater step for mankind into the nice past.
