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It's such a harsh message to propagate, though. A lot of these smaller countries have been really pushing their space programs, and they don't need "LOL, lander upside-down" memes to accent their recent failure any further.
At this rate, Japan may be able to actually land on the moon in a few more years, take some great pictures, and shove Mashable's "space photo of the decade" quote directly up their ass. Where it belongs.
Why would that lead to shoving a quote anywhere? Much of the marvel of this photo is the unusual circumstances around it.
We’ve already got photos of the moon.
This, afaik, is the first photo we have a lander that suffered a significant complication in the landing but was still able to deploy a rover to take a picture.