It's alive! JAXA's SLIM moon lander sends home new photos after surviving frigid lunar night

Two pictures of a big hill on the moon and rocks in front, in black and white.

Japan's SLIM lander is alive after a long sleep on the moon.

SLIM, short for "Smart Lander for Investigating Moon," responded to a command from Earth after hibernating for nearly a month. Part of that downtime fell during the cold of the moon's two-week night, mission officials announced early Monday (Feb. 26) on X, formerly Twitter.