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NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

NASA Finds Japan’s Crashed Moon Lander — Debris Scattered Across Lunar Surface

Jan Otte

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) took the first pictures of Japan’s doomed Resilience moon lander. The pictures show a grim scene: broken pieces of the lander spread out across the moon’s surface. The spacecraft, made by the Tokyo-based company ispace, was supposed to make a historic soft landing on June 5, but it didn’t and ...