SLIM landing on the Moon - Onboard camera view

[@ANPNMNfan]

SLIM blew out one of its two engines at 50 m above the Moon's surface; SLIM sensed the anomaly and autonomously chose to land on the Moon with one of its engines. So it was off by about 60 meters from the target point, but if the engine had not dropped out, the accuracy was estimated to be 3 to 4 meters. This is even better than the target landing error of within 100 meters. So the photo of SLIM standing upside down is proof that he did his best. Please tell him he did a great job. 👍

[@ivandee4011]

Congrats, Japan!

[@tbird20d]

Using "moonlight sonata" as the background music for this was a nice touch! And a bit ironic given the solar panel illumination issue. Thanks for the informative video! Great job JAXA and partners!!

[@SciNewsRo]

It’s not ironic. It’s a little bit sad, but hopeful. Moonlight, Sun’s rays, reflected by the Moon onto the solar panels might save the mission.

[@pixelwash9707]

Loved the view from the little rover thing - I thought it was a render when I saw it on the thumbnail, nice you had the rover to take the "selfie".

[@greensugar5325]

The tiny robot named SORA-Q took the photo.SORA-Q is only 250g and made by japanese toy maker TAKARA TOMY. TAKARA TOMY is known by Transformer toy.

[@suou7938]

i think they should have written the copyright text in english. it would have been such a good ad

[@HunterAtheist]

Amazing footage. Thank you for this.

[@josephm3775]

Amazing footage? What year is it 1965?

[@kaelandin]

@@josephm3775 The images are meant for navigation only. It isn't the primary mission.

[@DOYLETWAT]

​@@kaelandinbullshit

[@kaelandin]

@@DOYLETWAT They at minimum only add cameras for the engineers and navigation on spacecraft, the only reason to add one on a lander like that is for public reach out.

[@jjasper7512]

Potato cam! Why is it so hard to have clear video, not enhanced stills stitched together like a ray harryhausen film!

[@user-xqe3tap7rx]

Shortly before landing on the moon, one of the two engine nozzles fell off, creating a horizontal thrust that caused the lander to drift 50 meters and land, causing it to roll over 90 degrees. If the nozzle had not fallen off, it would have been possible to make a pinpoint landing with an error of 3-4 meters.

[@-_Traveler_-]

Typical ksp style landing.

[@allansun2510]

If...?

[@tsutenkakug6168]

Yes, their pinpoint landing target was within 100m, so even 55m could be considered a success. It's true that the aircraft rolled forward upon landing, but its descent speed was only 5km/h. Of course, that's the result of redundancy. A normal landing often has an error of several kilometres. Everything worked fine except for one 500newton engine.

[@bhuwantiwari1576]

Congratulations japan🎉😊love from India 🇮🇳

[@sslight333]

I was hit by a car and found myself in a three point inversion on my neck and shoulders, I know how Slim feels.

[@subhodeepmondal7937]

Next time both of us going to land there I mean India and Japan. Kudos to the scientist of JAXA. I think there is still some issue with the module as it is not properly facing sun hope soon the issue is resolved.

[@ねるちゃん-g7c]

Head landing is charming.

[@zoomcam7706]

ALL THE BEST JAPAN

[@thelastdefenderofcamelot5623]

At least there's a lot of transparency from JAXA compared to NASA and Chinese. Looking at all this data running real time is really amazing.

[@olasek7972]

NASA provides best data overall, enough to view Mars landers during their final minute before landing, quality is unmatched and comes from Mars, not the Moon

[@77142957]

Congratulations!!

[@猿田彦-s9o]

it is impressive that the probe still works even it landed upside down.

[@suou7938]

it was a soft landing and it was made to fall over (to the side, not onto the head😅) so it should be designed durable. maybe few broken parts on the outside. it was nice they put multiple antennas, i think

[@Antares2]

The fact that the image at 1:31 is near identical to the main screen of Kerbal Space Program kind of hilarious, despite the disappointment of the bad landing.

[@nicolerosae.2998]

Congratulations Japan 👏🏼🚀🎉🌖

[@geesh59]

You'd think by todays standards we could get some decent film of a moon landing to a better quality than in 1969.

[@anthonywlong]

Cause we used reverse engineering and can’t figure it out on our own

[@bahamuto717]

良く成功した！素晴らしい👍

[@kevinknapp7361]

A great success? Really? So what would you call it if it landed correctly? A miracle?

[@closeton118]

Great achievement. Congratulations to become the 5th successfully land nation on moon.

[@kevinknapp7361]

So is a skydiver whose parachute fails to open considered a successful landing as well?

[@closeton118]

@kevinknapp7361 yup. If he is the 5th skydiver of the world. To reach to the moon is an achievement itself.

[@kevinknapp7361]

@@closeton118 "As of July 2023, there have been 62 probes sent to the Moon. Of these, 33 were successful, 29 were unsuccessful." The Russians were first in 1959. He's far from the "5th skydiver" to hit the moon and this is no new feat. Plus, more missions have been a success story than not. This is not one of them.

[@dx-ek4vr]

@@kevinknapp7361 This landing was more like "skydiver's parachute fails, forcing him to deploy a reserve parachute, where he lands hard on the ground spraining an ankle slightly, but otherwise is ok". The probe still works, it didn't just make a new crater on the moon, and the 2 rovers it had managed to deploy, so all things considered, I'd say it's pretty successful.

[@kevinknapp7361]

@@dx-ek4vr lol. Sure. Let's just agree we all have different views on what "successful" means. For some, they're happy with these results. Myself, I'd want a refund.

[@davidkumarmaxi6843]

Congratulations

[@ToyotomiHideyoshiGre]

SLIM would be Japan’s first soft-landing on the Moon but more importantly, the team wanted to land the spacecraft with unprecedented precision. While the accuracy of lunar landers is traditionally a few to 10s of kilometres, SLIM was aiming to land within 100m of the target landing site. Close to the Shioli crater, the landing site was also on sloped terrain.

[@gamingair772]

Nice lander.

[@Phindarowine]

Super!

[@nemopoint1254]

2/26 SLIM (Japan) I can't believe they Re-restarted... Good luck with Odyssey (NOVA-C) too !

[@ICEMAN_GT]

What a unique way of landing

[@pumalee1997]

Congratulations to Japan, Japan became the first country to successfully achieve an upside-down soft landing on the moon.

[@Aランチ-d9m]

高難度の逆立ち着地に大成功！！

[@appletv4327]

可哀想なやつ。

[@Alan-lq7fg]

現実を見ろ、一人当たりgdp。もっと努力しろ。

[@piano_beginner]

@@Alan-lq7fg GDPを押し上げる具体的な解決策おしえて笑 頑張れば説明出来るって！w

[@Alan-lq7fg]

@@piano_beginner 勉強してしっかり働く

[@starlink_G6]

@@Alan-lq7fg頭悪そうで草

[@KrustyKlown]

Kerbeled it dude!!

[@ryann6919]

is this the first real photo of a crashed spacecraft on another world? If so, that's pretty crazy.

[@questtech2698]

I said during their live streaming that "the landing sequence is too complicated. Keeping it simple is the best."

[@nikolai522]

How was it too complicated?

[@Antares2]

@@nikolai522 It was supposed to flip 90 degrees just before landing, instead of the normal way of landing with the engines pointing down until touchdown. Unfortunately, it seems to have tipped over even further than the 90 degrees, as the engines in one of the pictures is almost pointing upwards.

[@questtech2698]

@@nikolai522 yes our learned friend antares explained it very well. If I may add the complication of this landing sequence: 1. the lander needs to land on a slope 2. the thrusters may have ejected loose soil on the slope, this complicated further 3. the fuel was at about 10% during the final moment of landing, would that affect the weight distribution?

[@torotorotonarino9652]

スラスタ一本で降りて写真を残した。よくカメラの視野に入ってたな。大したもん。ところでこれは「逆さ」なの?

[@user-tsubutsubu459]

逆さっていうか横転(？)って感じ 本来真上を向くはずの太陽光パネルが横を向いちゃってる

[@ren11270]

元々、2段階で倒れて横向きになる予定だったのが、成らずに逆立ちしてるのかと。

[@okatashiyoniku]

勢い余れば裏返しでしたね。エンジン一個が損傷した影響でバランス崩した。他が大成功だっただけ惜しかったなぁ。

[@suou7938]

撮影したsora-qは自立的に動いて画像認識でslimをフレームに収めるよう設計されているそうですよ

[@okatashiyoniku]

@@suou7938 最近のネット関係の業界では、やれAIが凄いだの何だのウルサイけど、JAXAなんかはしれっと当たり前のようにAI機能使ってるってことね。本物の技術者らにとっては、今の俗に言うAIって何？って感じてると思う。

[@jonathanpanlaqui1855]

First, Hakuto-R failed to land on the Moon when it was crash-landed, SLIM successfully landed on the Moon, but in an upside-down position.

[@烏栗坊]

Rock and roll!

[@jianyang6281]

Headlanding.

[@Losttoanyreason]

Got reason to be proud of their work even if everything didn't go 100%. Afterall they got there, soft landed and was able to deploy the toys. So not so bad at all. Real shame about the solar panel issue.

[@gauriemeul1350]

This I can believe

[@timestampterrysassistant7638]

Spooky landing 😱

[@TheFunkybert]

No video… just still images AGAIN. WTF?!?

[@mauric_2271]

looks like in a cartoon haha

[@jasne2992]

2024 and still same camera from the first landing? Wtf

[@SciNewsRo]

The lander died in April

[@aenavyvet6037]

Ok folks tell me how in the world did they get the picture of the lander upside down

[@sH-ed5yf]

Rover

[@DOYLETWAT]

Usual 1 frame per second footage

[@sH-ed5yf]

Yeah. And there is a reason for that

[@andreypetrov8354]

хорошо бы пояснения от сведущих .

[@SciNewsRo]

See kzbin.info/www/bejne/hHuno4CNmKqLl68

[@VirgilioValenzuela-g5p]

🇯🇵👏👏👏🙏

[@jasonlee0290]

YES!! SPACE GUNDAMS ARE REAL NOW PEOPLE!!

[@appletv4327]

🇯🇵❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@rendhark111]

Is there no plan B ?

[@suou7938]

the main mission was testing autonomous guidance. that’s done. it was never meant to do any serious exploration. only designed to last few days after landing. so no super cool discoveries even if there was plan B. they’re now waiting for the sun to face the solar panel. if it recovers, i assume they’ll put it to maximum use

[@badsanta8009]

Not very impressive for 2024, images from apollo missions are clearer.

[@rustythecrown9317]

We all keenly await Your upload from the Moon.

[@suou7938]

the rover that took that image of the upside-down lander is 250g. maybe your smartphone is even heavier than that. the lander is also only 200kg which is too light to do any proper exploration, so the lander was clearly not made to send back beautiful images for KZbin viewers.

[@easyalpha1]

​@@suou7938Cool!!!

[@richardcorwin1828]

Oops.....

[@easyalpha1]

Congrats Japan!!!! Now send Mechs!!!!

[@kevinknapp7361]

Maybe let TOMY design the next lander. At least it succeeded.

[@gyber23]

kerbal space program...

[@suou7938]

first to recreate it in real life! 😂

[@HabuTaizan]

It’ upside down🤣

[@山に住む秀才]

ミサイルなら先から当たるのが正しい。😊

[@eannamcnamara9338]

An image of a spacecraft with it's engine sticking up into the air on the moon looks so silly

[@Mars5637.]

Because it landed upside down when it was meant to land 90 degrees

[@lucasread1743]

At least the sun will eventually shine on the solar arrays and deliver power to the lander😮‍💨

[@Mars5637.]

@@lucasread1743 that is when the sun is at the west

[@BLITZKRIEG1]

why suck crap quality. it's only the moon 😂

[@cambridgemanor9775]

The moon is a desert.

[@sH-ed5yf]

Cause its still 300.000 km away

[@orsker]

Ладно хоть в Луну попали...

[@kevinknapp7361]

I don't care how accurate you could have been. Fact is you landed on your head which completely eliminates the mission. Fail. 100%

[@TroothSeakur]

Lol

[@SGI01]

逆立ち着地は　世界初！　やったね　弱者。

[@hikiniku_fiver]

誇れるぜ！

[@Alan-lq7fg]

こんなんで成功かよ？

[@ProfSakai]

それを言っちゃあおしめえよｗ

[@suou7938]

無事に予定通りのことが確認できたんだから成功でしょ。 月に着けたことは大したことないみたいに思ってるのかも知れないけど、今でも月に着く前に失敗するミッションは沢山ある。 それにもっと派手な成果が欲しいならもっと予算出さないと。 この前のインドの月探査機チャンドラヤーン3号は3900kgだけどSLIMは200kg。 十分の一以下でこれ以上何をしろと?

[@Alan-lq7fg]

@@suou7938 ごめん。

[@エビマヨ-k2e]

kawaii❤ 逆さまになったけどよく頑張りました。

[@cpeter-zw8wx]

私密马赛

[@inv8570]

没有软着陆能力就急着登月😅