A Japanese explorer that recently landed on the Moon touched down around 55 meters from its target site, the country's space agency said Thursday, underscoring that its mission to land with unprecedented precision has been accomplished.The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency had aimed to land the probe within 100 meters of the target site. It has received and analyzed data transmitted from the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon, or SLIM, which landed on the satellite Saturday.Its positioning accuracy was even estimated to be less than 10 meters, possibly around 3 to 4 meters, before startin…READ FULL ARTICLE
