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Intuitive Machines: Moon lander pictured on its side with snapped leg (www.bbc.com)
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[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

I guess the main issue is the batteries in the deep freeze of lunar night; they’re likely to be damaged by the -270 temperatures. If you’re not budgeted to deal with that then you don’t spend a lot of money trying to survive it for 2 weeks.