{"id":181691,"date":"2024-01-30T08:22:31","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T14:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/japans-moon-lander-comes-back-to-life"},"modified":"2024-01-30T08:22:31","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T14:22:31","slug":"japans-moon-lander-comes-back-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/japans-moon-lander-comes-back-to-life","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s moon lander comes back to life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/japans-moon-lander-comes-back-to-life2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s moon lander has come back to life, the space agency said Monday, enabling the craft to proceed with its mission of investigating the lunar surface despite its rocky start.<\/p>\n<p>The surprise announcement was a boost to Japan\u2019s space program, nine days after the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) touched down at a wonky angle that left its <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/solar+panels\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">solar panels<\/a> facing the wrong way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast evening we succeeded in establishing communication with SLIM, and resumed operations!\u201d JAXA said on social media platform X, posting a grainy image of a lunar rock known as a \u201ctoy poodle\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan\u2019s moon lander has come back to life, the space agency said Monday, enabling the craft to proceed with its mission of investigating the lunar surface despite its rocky start. The surprise announcement was a boost to Japan\u2019s space program, nine days after the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) touched down at a wonky [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,8,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-power","category-space","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}