Japan's lander miraculously survived 3 extremely cold nights on the Moon

Despite pessimistic predictions, the Japanese SLIM probe achieved the miracle of reviving three times after spending the lunar night in temperatures of -183 degrees Celsius, -130 degrees Celsius and -170 degrees respectively. C.

On April 24, the Japan Aerospace Research and Development Agency (JAXA) announced that the country's Smart Lander for Lunar Research (SLIM) continued to achieve a miracle: surviving the third lunar night of the year. extremely cold environment.

According to JAXA, the SLIM spacecraft responded to a signal from a control station on Earth on the evening of April 23, and this was a sign that the spacecraft woke up after another night on the Moon.

The SLIM spacecraft landed at an angle, causing its solar panels to face in the wrong direction and not recharge optimally. (Source: AP).

The SLIM spacecraft landed on the Moon last January, thereby registering Japan as the 5th country in the world to have a spacecraft land gently on Earth's only natural satellite, after the Soviet Union. Previously, the US, China and India.

The SLIM spacecraft landed at an angle, causing its solar panels to face in the wrong direction and not recharge optimally. (Source: AP).

The SLIM, which weighs 200kg, landed at an angle that caused its solar panels to face in the wrong direction and therefore not recharge optimally during the day, when temperatures are around 100 degrees Celsius.

Despite pessimistic predictions, this 200kg probe achieved the miracle of reviving three times after spending the lunar night in temperatures of -183 degrees Celsius, -130 degrees Celsius and -170 degrees Celsius, respectively. . Night on the Moon is about 14 days long on Earth.

Previously, JAXA said the SLIM spacecraft was not designed for such harsh lunar nights.

So far, SLIM has achieved the basic goals of the mission, including testing precision landing technology, deploying two small autonomous robots, conducting a series of scientific experiments, and transmitting images and data from the Moon to Earth.

In an announcement on the X network, JAXA confirmed that SLIM's core functions are still working, despite repeated cycles of extreme temperature changes.

According to JAXA, the SLIM spacecraft's multi-frequency camera finds a mineral called "Olivine" on the surface of the Moon, from which it analyzes the composition of this mineral.

Comparing this mineral with mineral samples on Earth will help provide evidence for the Big Bang hypothesis, according to which the Moon was formed when the Earth collided with a planet. another planet about 4.6 billion years ago.