https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/29/japan_lander_wakes_up_takes/ https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/29/japan_lander_wakes_up... we didn't know this at posti

https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/29/japan_lander_wakes_up_takes/ https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/29/japan_lander_wakes_up... we didn't know this at posting time, but the solar panels weren't damaged, just pointed the wrong way, and when they finally got sunlight again, they were able to properly start the science mission. (Shortened, because it's not designed to survive the lunar night, but lots of neat "first time seen" data.) Also, I thought I read that at least one of the robots actually communicates directly with earth even if the lander is toast? Honestly I'm a little surprised that our first step at investigating a moon or planet in this century isn't "deploy a microsat version of GPS + TDRSS to simplify the landers" so that the first task of every mission is just "pop a gopro" :-)