Japan's SLIM probe to attempt historic Moon landing in January
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Japan is preparing for its first-ever lunar landing with the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) probe in January. In the latest, SLIM, also called "Moon Sniper" has reached the lunar orbit. It aims to achieve an "unprecedentedly high precision landing" and will touch down within 100 meters of a specific site on the lunar surface. If successful, Japan will join the US, Russia, China, and India as the fifth nation to land a probe on the Moon.