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Japanese lunar probe SLIM (Smart Lander for Investigating Moon) has gone into operation after days of power failure following its landing on the moon, Japanese space agency JAXA said on Monday. “Communication with SLIM was successfully established last night, and operations resumed,” the agency said in a social media post on Monday. “Science observations were immediately started with the MBC [Multi-Band Camera], and we obtained first light for the 10-band observation. This figure shows the ‘toy poodle’ observed in the multi-band observation.” Japan successfully landed the high-tech probe SLIM …