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What's New in Lunar & Planetary Science

The Japanese Space Agency Resilience (Hakuto-M2) lunar lander and rover and the Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1 lunar lander were launched successfully on 15 January 2025 at 06:11 UT (1:11 a.m. EST). For more, see the NASA press release and the ispace news release.

The European Space Agency Bepi-Colombo mission made its sixth Mercury flyby on 08 January.

This Day in Planetary and Lunar Exploration History

1971
Splashdown of Apollo 14, third mission to land humans on the Moon.
2021
United Arab Emirates Hope spacecraft reaches Mars and goes into orbit.

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