Chandrayaan-2 guided Japan's SLIM mission in landing on the Moon

Chandrayaan-2 guided Japan's SLIM mission to land on the Moon.

Japan used India's Chandrayaan-2 to collect imagery that helped choose a landing location for the spacecraft.

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Chandrayaan-2's technological advancements and experiences have provided valuable insights for SLIM, which successfully landed on the Moon on Saturday.

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The Chandrayaan-2 mission was partially successful as it failed to land on the Moon, but its orbiter is still hovering over the lunar surface today.

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SLIM, which entered lunar orbit on December 25 after a month-long journey

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When the mission landed on the Moon, it did not perform as expected as the latest imagery shows that it stopped its solar panels from charging.

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The Japanese space agency has said it will take several months to assess whether it landed accurately, just 100 meters from the landing site.

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