The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency attempted to land the 'Moon Sniper' vehicle within 100 meters of their target. The agency said it will take up to a month to verify whether the lander slim achieved the exact target.
So far, only the United States, the Soviet Union, China and India have successfully landed on the moon. Japan became the fifth country to achieve this milestone.
Tokyo-based space research agency JAXA has chosen an area adjacent to a hole in the moon's chest as an ideal landing site. The name of this hole is 'Shioli Gahbar'. Slim is planned to land very slowly and smoothly on the closest part of the Moon to Earth (the part that can be seen from Earth).
Experts say that the reason for choosing such an area to land spacecraft on the lunar surface is the shield of the moon's chest. The land adjacent to the pit has a slope of less than 15 degrees; Which is considered ideal for launching spacecraft.
Japan successfully launched Slim on September 7 last year. The rover was launched from Tanegashima Spaceport and weighs about 590 kilograms.
Japan launched the state-of-the-art X-ray space telescope Exerism on a rocket with the vehicle. Although targeting the launch of this Chandrayaan in 2021, Japan took 2 years to make advanced technical preparations.
According to estimates, India's Chandrayaan-3 left for the slim moon two weeks after touching down on the lunar soil. On December 25, the Japanese space agency announced that the vehicle had entered the moon's orbit.
With this, Japan is trying to touch the moon for the second time. The spacecraft had broken up during its previous attempt to land. A private American company in Emmaus also failed to land on the moon's surface.
Slim is not expected to work on the moon's surface for long periods of time, but rather to study the rocks surrounding the crater using scientific cameras.
Japan's Lander Slim (Smart Lander for Investigation Moon) will land on the Moon and investigate. The rover that will land on the lunar surface from Slim will take X-ray images. That is why the name of this mission is X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRIZOM).
Xerism's mission is to send high-quality X-rays of black holes, neutron stars and supernovae to Japan's space research center. As a result, scientists will get a clear idea about their structure.
Source: 'The daily Ittefaq'/newspaper/bd