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A Japanese probe will end more than a year of orbiting the moon with a controlled crash-landing on the lunar surface, officials said Wednesday.

The Kaguya probe will hit the moon at about 1800 GMT Wednesday, Japan's space agency, JAXA, said in a statement.

The probe was launched in September 2007 and has completed its scheduled observations. Its mission was extended and it has been in low lunar orbit since January last year. It is currently flying as low as six miles (10 kilometers) above the moon's surface in an elliptical orbit.

Kaguya will hit the moon's surface at an angle of less than 1 degree, ...

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