{"id":25745,"date":"2024-01-30T05:56:20","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T05:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=25745"},"modified":"2024-01-30T05:56:20","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T05:56:20","slug":"25745","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=25745","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/2401\/Slim_jaxa_960.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div> New landers are on the Moon. Nearly two weeks ago, Japan&#8217;s Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) released two rovers as it descended, before its main lander touched down itself. The larger of the two rovers can hop like a frog, while the smaller rover is about the size of a baseball and can move after pulling itself apart like a transformer. The main lander, nicknamed Moon Sniper, is seen in the featured image taken by the smaller rover. Inspection of the image shows that Moon Sniper&#8217;s thrusters are facing up, meaning that the lander is upside down from its descent configuration and on its side from its intended landing configuration. One result is that Moon Sniper&#8217;s solar panels are not in the expected orientation, so that powering the lander had to be curtailed and adapted. SLIM&#8217;s lander has already succeeded as a technology demonstration, its main mission, but was not designed to withstand the lunar night &#8212; which starts tomorrow. via NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap240130.html\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New landers are on the Moon. Nearly two weeks ago, Japan&#8217;s Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) released two rovers as it descended, before its main lander touched down itself. <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=25745\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10,12],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","post-25745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-whatsup","tag-ifttt","tag-nasa"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25746,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25745\/revisions\/25746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}