Japan Has a Rover on the Moon... But Could Be Lost Forever
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- čas přidán 19. 06. 2024
- Unlock the secrets of Japan's historic lunar landing with SLIM - the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon. Join us as we delve into its incredible journey, challenges, and potential game-changing impact on future space exploration!
This script was written a while ago! "Technical issue" was an entire engine nozzel falling off 😅 slim is back online after the sun hit the panels as of jan 29, and jaxa has classed it as an "exceptional success" as it has been beaming back data. We also have pictures of the actual lander on the surface from rover 2!
yeah seemed strange having this come out weeks later and not have the details knows quite soon after the landing
@@samidalyin their defense his warographics uploads have been taking priority even while he was on holiday and I think Russia’s.. failure on a lunar landing skipped ahead of the queue
Note: Sunset occurred on the 31st, so the mission is almost certainly concluded. The odds of it waking up again would've been exceptionally low even if it hadn't tumbled over.
@@pseudotasuki I think it's supposed to land sideways
@@dillonbledsoe7680 Indeed, but it ended up on its nose.
So what you're telling us is, Japan's chances at lunar surface exploration just went from SLIM to none . . . BUH DA BUM BUM TISS
Very nice! Lol
Brilliant 😅
Hey once we get back to the moon and need parts we know where to go
Dad joke! 😮😂😊
😂😂😂
The Japanese have invented a hopping probe and one that rolls along the surface. Got to love the Japanese's ingenuity.
They adctually have a very long history and tradition of things like folding puzzles and clever automatons. I think the ball one is particularly genius. I actually hadn't heard much about the hopping one before this.
@@OllamhDrab Absolutely. I have always admired the Japanese for their quirky but clever engineering.
It doesn't roll, exactly. It's more like a walking motion. What's cool is that it was designed by a toy company and they're selling an inexpensive RC version.
Mitsubishi, the manufacturer of both the launch vehicle and the lander, also invented the Zero 🔴
No matter what may have went wrong. This is extremely impressive.
I know I really don't get why Japan isn't getting more props for being the first to soft land upside down on the moon
Ok seriously, where do I subscribe to be notified every time Simon launches a new channel?
It's called Gray Jay.
r/simonwhistler
Right? I'm surprised he doesn't push them on his other channels. Though, he probably doesn't want a channel to get uninterested subscribers that will likely unsubscribe later.
@jonyemm
I'm here right now because he did mention it on his Brain Blaze that came out yesterday. He was saying how disappointed he was that he doesn't have as many subscribers as he had hoped for by now. I watch several of his channels, and this is the first I've heard about it. I'm a space science junkie ✨️ 😉
@@Julia-uh4lithat's how I discovered this channel! Simon really needs to mention his channels more often.
12:33. The script refers to Spirit and Opportunity rovers while showing an animation of Perseverance; a very different rover that doesn't much care whether it's day or night as it has a nuclear-decay power supply. Lunar nights are long and it's almost certain that SLIM will never wake up afterward.
This is a good video, but was already out of date when it uploaded and that's going to happen when the subject matter is an active news story. Channels either need to streamline their process to get the latest data or stick to discussions that aren't as time-sensitive.
Congratulations Japan! Amazing & hi tech navigational landing. As well as creative recovery of some data.
I swear, every single day I find some amazing new 'Simon project' and duh, of course I subscribe.
legit question, Simon, how do you have the time to do all these amazing and interesting projects and still have time for your family?? absolutely insane, good on ya ❤
He's the front man for a business with an array of contributors
He's a massive nerd 🤓
Some days he records for 8 hours and other days he gets to cut short. How difficult would it really be to sit and read a ready made script hour after hour?
My guess is not very.
The money is the motivation. A win, win 😃
It didn't land correctly, but it landed intact. It counts as a soft landing.
Each lunar probe landing after which you can walk is a good one.
Yes please to additional videos
Awesome. Japan showing that a soft landing can be done let alone having done it so well is just fantastic.
I am more than willing for any and every space related video, because I will never get enough of Simon and team geeking out over this stuff!
And we all hopefully learn from our mistakes. In this case I get the feeling that on future landers there will be some solution for the positioning of the solar panels and companies, governments, etc will make sure there's some way to ensure the lander always has some ability at least to recharge its batteries at least enough to repositioned itself to start collecting the sun light it needs to be operational. As you said though just what they achieved is amazing and should help bring bigger and better things in the future.
Aliens looking at the moon from their telescope
"We found life! That moon has giant flees!"
Fleas. Sorry 😊
Mission failed successfully - - Kudos to Japan for the outstanding accomplishments on this mission. Sad that there was such a technical problem, but that doesn't change the many remarkable things they did with this and what knowledge the world has gained from it.
thanks SW and crew for this excellent channel!
Cant we just turn the moon upside down?... or move the Sun?
Chad ideas. Screw it lets go for it, operation move the sun is a go
Calm down Gru
Daemm, haven't been this early in decades xD
I helped build XRISM and flew out to Japan for some last minute repairs before launch.
I'd love to see a video on it.
You gotta stop making stuff up
@@ThorGodofThunder420 uh, okay?
"Average sub-artic bull elk" - hang on a moment (goes out to the back garden and returns) - oh yeah....
Yay japan! Fingers crossed for slims longevity! 😍
I am curious as to a followup video as to how SLIM landed the way it did.
Either way, please more Astro videos!
One of its engines broke. Its nozzle snapped off during the descent. This resulted in a small torque (due to them being angled slightly) which the lander was able to counteract. But that imbalance also resulted in the flip prior to touchdown being a bit overzealous. Instead of landing on its side, it continued to rotate and eventually settled down on its nose.
The solar panels which were supposed to be facing upward ended up facing West instead. The good news is that it was able to power back up for a few days prior to the sunset.
He rushed to make a video. He could have waited.
@@zaco-km3su Even more reason now to make a follow up, don’t you think?
Thats the cutetest rover....Japan always makes cool stuff.
We want lots of space and moon videos !!!!!!!!!!
Just saying, I'm kinda surprised you (Simon) hadn't found this niche before, as I imagine it's a rather large one. Perhaps I'm overestimating the size of the group purely because I consider myself a part of it, but space nerd stuff I've gotta imagine has a massive pool of interested people
A new space race. Hopefully with peaceful principles and the exploration of space for the betterment of all the people of planet Earth.
At least their mission made it. *cough* artemis *cough*
I think you mean Peregrine, Artemis is NASAs human moon program and has yet to attempt a landing on the moon at all. Artemis 1 flew around the moon with no crew and was successful. Artemis 2 will carry crew but won't fly until 2025. and Artemis 3 is the planned landing one.
you're joking-- not another one?? oh for gods sake i can't... honestly i can't do this.there's too much Whistlerverse channels going on at the moment... why did he make another?
jk ilu Simon and co! i'll share this channel around w. some friends cuz we LOVE space stuff
Yes, Simon, we want an episode on it, whatever "it" is 😂 we're hungry for content
🙋🏽♀️ I'll take a video all about SLIMs buddy
Eminem?
@@ThorGodofThunder420 Clever
2:38 subtitles: “Kaguya” Astrographics: “Kayuga”
I'm curious about the frog and the roller
SLIM ya dead mon ?
Its a cold... case.
Yer mon! But my lucky egg is still good 👍
“The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.”
~ Mark Twain
Dear Writer,
Wonderful job 👍
Thank you 🙂
Definitely needs a follow up!
Hmmm....yes. SLIM did indeed power up when the Sun was better aligned and more work was able to be completed.
Hey writers. Physicist here. You don’t need to say “pound force”. Pounds and Newtons are both units of force. So, it’s just “pounds of thrust”. (Similarly, kilograms are the unit of mass. So I mass 100 kg, but I weigh 980 N.)
I’m sure the technicals aren’t so simple, but feels like a lot of issues would be resolved with sending up a few charging towers and maybe some sort of lander or two to erect/maintain them
Hey yall! Enjoy the content!
"It's no heavier than your average sub-arctic bull elk" made me snort
Im not sure about anyone else, but using the weight of "your average sub arctic bull elk" as a scale for something doesnt really make it any more relatable lol
What even is a sub artic bull elk 😂
You just mentioned a lunar day and night and I’m wondering how that works? For example, if there’s a quarter moon in D.C. then is there a three quarter moon in Istanbul? I’ve had a few drinks and the cue ball keeps moving around, can you help me understand this?
Lets go Simon🤙🏼
gee, would have to burn a tone of fuel to slow yourself down for a landing up there. love this guys vids, always something interesting to watch, very narrow window though :(
What astoundingly current news.
YATCHZEE!!!!! I found YET another secret simon channel
It’s about time some robot went there and either landed near or approached the Moon car the US left their ages ago… so we can all see it!
At 12:40 , that's clearly not Spirit or Opportunity, but one of their nuclear-powered successors
Let's be honest. The lifespans of these little rovers always exceed expectations. lol hopefully, this will be no different? 🧐
SLIM was shutdown on 19 January 2024, and then resume operations on 29 January.
I’m surprised they didn’t use the jumping prob to jump into slim and tip it over to its proper angle
Maybe JAXA could get the nannas that knit the woolly jumpers for Suzuki cars (UK Suzuki advert) to knock up a blanket for SLIM to keep it warm during the lunar night ----- lol
Jaxa : Will the real SLIM shady please stand up?...please?
It came back online 9 days after landing. It should be working well right now.
Not anymore, it stopped working at sunset a few days after it came back online.
So when do we get the Space AA or RAC?
"Scott Manly" did a video on this and it shows one of the engine bells blew off. This is why it landed on its face.
A complete lunar day is about 1 month. However, to avoid lunar night, the day would only be 2 weeks, when the sun shine.
You even showed the lander up side down on the surface. I'll keep watching for sure but you are no Scott Manley 😂
Everything on the moon is lost forever for most people.
"Japan Has a Rover on the Moon... But Could Be Lost Forever"
You're saying that Japan could be lost forever?! 🙀
69th like. Nice. Awesome work from the internet's best sentient beard.
I don't like how my brain keeps picturing landing on the Mun and not the Moon.
A sub-attic bull elk is a new unit of weight measurement for me…good day. I think it’s 0.34 washing machines.
I know it’s an already completed mission (SLIM did actually collect solar power eventually) but in theory couldn’t they have used the maneuvering thrusters to try and rotate the lander? It’s “light” and the gravity is obviously reduced. Just idle musings.
Did it? It might come back again.
If they would've learned anything from Battle Bots then they would've put flipping arms on it and it could've saved itself
In the meantime, the facts have caught up with this video, I believe...
Another new channel from Simon
I want more X-ray detektorn . 😅
🎶Its SLIM shady Slim Shady, yes, its the real Shady
All the other SLIM Shadys are just imitating
So won’t the real SLIM Shady please stand up!
Please stand up! Please stand up!🎶
Impressive nonetheless….humans LOVE failure, they thrive from it….our most greatest achievements must give full credit to failure or accident….
Grsts & good luck Jaxs
Could call it "Slim Shady"
Good Lord Simon how many channels are you voicing at once?
Solar cells on everything not facing the ground.
That's a good idea but probably be to heavy
@@danielgregus9456 They were using featherweight thin-film cells.
Origami and a Pokeball on the lunar surface - very Japanese and very impressive
New Channel
Can we all agree if you ask if we want a video on a side topic included in the video. Then we want a video on said topic.
Wait - did you say Japan attempted two moon landings - and both went belly up because after landing the solar panels were/are looking in the wrong direction?
We would like another video on *that*.
5:35
Please research Vanhalen belt.
so what you are telling me is that the leaping tank is possible to use on the moon
Just when you thought you'd seen it all you come across Simon hosting yet another channel called Astrographics... Wonder
'Cause I'm Slim Shady, yes, I'm the real Shady
All you other Slim Shadys are just imitating
So won't the real Slim Shady please stand up
Please stand up, please stand up?
If it landed just fine, as you say it did, then why are it's solar panels facing the wrong way?
MIRROR. Surely there's an angle an Orbiting Mirror (or laser) can redirect to the lander.
we should get spaceX to send a Cybertruck to the moon, it should have plenty of power to boot up SLIM...
Starting to think all my subs are to Simon's channels. 🎉❤
Give me the stick, bury the throttle and turn in hard, worked for me before
Would the real slim lander please power up
Who knows, one day we might get a human being on the moon.
What? How big are your suvs
Odd to keep calling it a precise landing if the panels were facing the wrong direction. Isn't that like backing you car into a parallel parking space? I would have pushed the word "successful" more so than "precise".
I like the serious, scripted format.
How many Danny DeVitos does a standard subarctic bull elk weigh in this world ? :)
Whatever happened to RTGs???? Why don't they include one? Solved.
No human has ever landed on the moon. Buzz Aldrin has admitted this it's not a conspiracy theory. Hopefully one day we will.
Mare are pronounced "M-ah-r-eh" as in the latin word for ocean.
It's ON THE FUCKING MOON. By definition it's lost forever. Best case scenario you get to use it for a lil bit before it breaks, but you ain't getn that shit back.
Pound foot probably, not pound force. Imperial units are weird.
NASA has a lot more success than failures, IMO. Look at Voyager 1 and 2! They were expected to last what 10 to 12 years? And Opportunity just 90 Mars days. 15 Earth years later it finally died. And, then there is Hubble! Despite a rather large flaw that went unnoticed requiring a repair mission to give it a pair of contacts. I think the planned mission time was like 10 years? 30 some later it is still extremely useful. Will never be touch by human gloves again because of the Shuttle Program being axed not too long after the Columbia breaking apart during re-entry. R.I.P. to those 7 heroes! If you know you are most likely going to die due to several heat shield chunks being knocked off during launch, there is nothing better than to have spent your last moments in space. A feat that only around 450 people have managed with the help of MILLIONS of people around the World made happen.
Japan [...] could be lost forever. That's what the current title says.