SLIM, Small Japanese lunar lander Options

[Phil Stooke]

SLIM is a small Japanese lunar lander planned to launch this year.

Here:

https://sorabatake.jp/25799/

is an article about it, with some images, describing two small landers which will deploy from it and operate on the surface.

In Japanese. Open in something which will offer a translation if required.

Phil

[Phil Stooke]

I don't know where this is in the full frame.

On the SLIM website:

https://www.isas.jaxa.jp/home/slim/SLIM/gallery/index.html

a caption to this OHRC image notes: "It is unclear what the light spot in the immediate vicinity of SLIM is, but it appears to be about LEV-1 in size."

I had considered that, but I was puzzled by the appearance of a small bright spot adjacent to two different landers in images taken by the same camera. I looked for a common cause but I was probably wrong to do so. The LEV-2 image of the lander doesn't show anything at that location but the position of LEV-2 is not known yet, so LEV-1 might be hiding behind the lander.

Phil