Chandrayaan-2 cameras help Japan confirm accuracy of lunar landing
Hindustan Times|January 27, 2024
Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM), the moon lander of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (Jaxa), landed on the moon on January 20, and, the agency confirmed on Thursday that it did so approximately 55m east of the original target landing site, meeting its main mission of landing with an accuracy of 100m.
Chandrayaan-2 cameras help Japan confirm accuracy of lunar landing

It did so with help from India's second lunar mission Chandrayaan-2, technically considered "failure", but whose orbiter continues to guide vehicles from India and other countries.

"Lunar topography captured by the Indian spacecraft Chandrayaan-2, overlaid with images acquired by the SLIM navigation camera during the HV2 (second hovering) at an altitude of about 50m," Jaxa said in a statement issued on Thursday.

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