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Posted by baalke on October 1, 2007, 5:54 pm
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http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2007/10/20071001_kaguya_e.html
Lunar Explorer KAGUYA (SELENE)
Successful Image Taking by the High Definition Television (HDTV)
October 1, 2007 (JST)
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation)
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and NHK (Japan Broadcasting
Corporation) have successfully taken high definition moving images
through the KAGUYA (SELENE) for the first time. The KAGUYA is a lunar
explorer launched on September 14 (Japan Standard Time, JST) from the
Tanegashima Space Center.
The images were taken by the KAGUYA's onboard High Definition
Television
(HDTV), which was developed by NHK for space use. It is the first
high-definition image shooting of the Earth from so deep in space -
about 110,000 km away from the Earth - in human history. The moving
image data acquired by the KAGUYA was received at the JAXA Usuda Deep
Space Center, then processed at NHK.
The satellite was confirmed to be in good health through telemetry
data
received at the Usuda station.
[The Earth taken by the onboard HDTV of the KAGUYA (Still image)]
The world's first high definition image shooting of the Earth from
about
110,000 km deep in space. (Up until today, we have taken images from
the
Space Shuttle and the International Space Station (ISS,) which fly
about
340 km away from the Earth.) The West Coast of South America looks
brighter as it was day time there when the image was taken.
The moving image was taken by eight-fold speed intermittent shooting
(eight minutes is converged to one minute) at 9:46 p.m. on September
29,
2007 (JST,) then received at the JAXA Usuda Deep Space Center at 9:40
a.m. on September 30, 2007 (JST). Part of the acquired moving image
data
was processed for this still image.
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(Reference)
[KAGUYA (SELENE) Flight Path to the Moon (Pattern Diagram)]
[High Definition Television (prior to loading on the KAGUYA)]
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