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Nasa's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) captured photos of the site where the ispace Mission 2 attempted to land.
The photos, taken by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, show a dark mark and a faint halo in the Mare Frigoris region—also ...
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has spotted the crash site of Japan's Resilience moon lander. The ispace lander aimed for ...
A NASA spacecraft around the moon has photographed the crash site of a Japanese company's lunar lander. NASA released the ...
NASA’s LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) captured photos of the site where the ispace Mission 2 SMBC x HAKUTO-R Venture Moon ...
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has imaged the crash site of Resilience, a moon lander built and operated by the ...
A Nasa spacecraft around the moon has photographed the crash site of a Japanese company’s lunar lander. Nasa released the pictures on Friday, two weeks after ispace’s lander slammed into the moon.
The lander had targeted Mare Frigoris, a basaltic plain about 900km from the moon’s north pole, and was on an hour-long descent from lunar orbit. A room of more than 500 ispace employees, shareholders ...
The failure comes two years after a prior mission ended in a crash. Touchdown had been scheduled for 4:17 am Japan time on Friday (1917 GMT Thursday) on the Mare Frigoris region of the Moon’s northern ...
The ispace team chose a flat area with few boulders in Mare Frigoris or Sea of Cold, a long and narrow region full of craters and ancient lava flows that stretches across the near side’s ...
ispace's RESILIENCE Lunar Lander crashed in Mare Frigoris on June 6, 2025, after a Hard Landing Moon. The Japan Moon Mission failed, losing payloads like ESA's Tenacious rover. Trending Photos A ...