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SELENE to moon: Konichiwa!

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Guess who's going to the moon? All systems are go for Japan's first lunar orbiter, scheduled for liftoff on August 16. The $269 million probe, called SELENE, is four years behind schedule. Japan's space agency did launch a moon probe in 1990, but that was just a fly-by mission — unlike SELENE, which should actually orbit the moon. Researchers will use data from the probe to study the moon's orgin and evolution.



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