Japan's upside-down SLIM moon lander wakes up on lunar surface and snaps new photos

Grey rocks on the dusty surface of the moon.

Ten days after making the first moon landing for Japan, the SLIM moon lander is suddenly awake again after arriving upside-down.

Mission operators with SLIM, or the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon mission, successfully made the first moon landing for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) on Jan. 19. SLIM's solar panels, however, were in shadow and the little moon lander quickly fell silent when its batteries ran out.