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by bashauma 874 days ago
The probe is expected to operate during lunar daylight, i.e., until 2/1. (Note the main mission of SLIM is a "pinpoint landing" and the observation by the probe is just a bonus.)

During the remaining three days, JAXA has announced that they will focus on optical observations of the surrounding environment (specifically, some rocks in the surrounding area). So it is hard to imagine they will do this hard schedule of risky additional operations to restore the attitude.

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> optical observations of the surrounding environment

turn cam on. take pictures of rocks.

I wish someday we could take our camera to the moon as easily as our replying ;)