Japan’s moon landing picture might be the space photo of the decade (mashable.com)

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[-] perviouslyiner@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

"mun or bust!"

[-] gibmiser@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago

What a weird story. Upside-down landing. Rover built by toy company who made Transformers.

[-] deadcream@sopuli.xyz 33 points 9 months ago

It didn't land upside down, it rolled over after touch down due to high lateral velocity after one of its engines malfunctioned (and the whole reason it managed to land softly at all is because onboard software was programmed to handle such cases and find a way to land it anyway).

[-] dudinax@programming.dev 6 points 9 months ago

It would be amazing if they could figure out how to right it.

[-] perviouslyiner@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

I mean, the toy did pretty well - it survived the landing and took this picture!

[-] dudinax@programming.dev 3 points 9 months ago

And it reads like it transforms.

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