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Japans SLIM spacecraft made a strange but precise lunar landing, touching the moon with the tip of its nose as it landed incredibly close its target location.

Japan’s space agency released on Jan. 25 the first photo of its lunar probe making a successful moon landing.

Japan's SLIM achieves precision lunar landing, making it the fifth nation to succeed. Unexpectedly, SLIM lands upside down, facing challenges but transmitting valuable lunar images.

Japan's lunar lander ended up standing on its nose after its historic touchdown on the surface of the Moon, images appear to show.

Japan’s moon lander nailed its tricky, “pinpoint” touchdown on the lunar surface, officials from the country’s space agency announced Thursday, but a newly released image revealed that the spacecraft became overturned in the process.

Japan’s space agency revealed Thursday that its “moon sniper” robotic explorer landed near its lunar target — but experienced an “anomaly” during descent.

Japan's Smart Lander for Investigating the Moon, or SLIM, landed on the moon Saturday about 180 feet, or little more than half a football field, away from its target landing spot, space officials said on Thursday.

Japan’s space agency said Thursday that its first lunar mission hit the tiny patch of the moon's surface it was aiming for, although the probe appears to be lying upside-down.

Japan has become the fifth country to successfully travel to the moon after its so-called "moon sniper" achieved an unusually precise "pinpoint" touchdown. But a power outage left a camera intended to study lunar rocks only able to generate low resolution images.

$120 million probe hit trouble moments before touching down on its tiny target zone