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TOKYO — Japan’s first lunar probe made a controlled crash landing on the moon today, successfully completing a 19-month mission to study Earth’s nearest neighbor, Japan’s space agency said.
The remotely controlled satellite, named after the folklore princess Kaguya, had been orbiting the moon to map its surface and study its mineral distribution and gravity levels. It was dropped onto the surface early today, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, said.
