March 7, 2025: #IntuitiveMachines has decreed the end of the mission for the #LunarLander #Athena.

March 7, 2025: In a #PressConference, #IntuitiveMachines announced that #Athena Class #NovaC #lander, which arrived on the lunar #Surface on March 6, 2025 at 17:28:50 UTC, although functional in all its instruments, had landed in an anomalous position and that the batteries were not recharging. The #IM2 mission ends like the previous one #mission with the lander lying on its side. The lander had reached #MonsMouton about a hundred kilometers from the #LunarSouthPole. Here is the #LastImage sent from this lander. #Short #4K #60FPS via #AI.

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