[FPSPACE] FW: [JAXA:0145] KAGUYA (SELENE) World's First Image Taking of the Moon by HDTV

[LARRY KLAES]

>From: "JAXA Press Release Mail Service" <jaxapr at jaxa.jp>
>To: ljk4 at msn.com
>Subject: [JAXA:0145] KAGUYA (SELENE) World's First Image Taking of the Moon 
>by HDTV
>Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 18:38:48 +0900
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>                             KAGUYA (SELENE)
>             World's First Image Taking of the Moon by HDTV
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>                                                 November 7, 2007 (JST)
>                              Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
>                                   NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation)
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>The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and NHK (Japan
>Broadcasting Corporation) have successfully performed the world's
>first high-definition image taking by the lunar explorer "KAGUYA"
>(SELENE,) which was injected into a lunar orbit at an altitude of
>about 100 km on October 18, 2007, (Japan Standard Time. Following
>times and dates are all JST.)
>
>The image shooting was carried out by the onboard high definition
>television (HDTV) of the KAGUYA, and it is the world's first high
>definition image data acquisition of the Moon from an altitude about
>100 kilometers away from the Moon.
>
>The image taking was performed twice on October 31. Both were eight-
>fold speed intermittent shooting (eight minutes is converged to one
>minute.) The first shooting covered from the northern area of the
>"Oceanus Procellarum" toward the center of the North Pole, then the
>second one was from the south to the north on the western side of the
>"Oceanus Procellarum." The moving image data acquired by the KAGUYA
>was received at the JAXA Usuda Deep Space Center, and processed by NHK.
>
>The satellite was confirmed to be in good health through telemetry
>data received at the Usuda station.
>
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>           Moon Images Shot by the Onboard HDTV of the KAGUYA
>
>(1) North Pole Area
>     (still image cut out from the first image shooting)
>http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2007/11/20071107_kaguya_e.html#pict01
>This is a still image taken out from the first moving image shooting
>when the KAGUYA flew from the northern area of the "Oceanus Procel
>larum"(*1) to the center of the North Pole.
>As the altitude near the North Pole is high, the angle of the coming
>sunlight was lower, thus the shade of the crater topography looks
>long in the image.
>The moving image was taken at 4:07 a.m. on October 31, 2007 (JST) by
>eight-fold speed intermittent shooting (eight minutes is converged to
>one minute) from the KAGUYA, and the data was received at the JAXA
>Usuda Deep Space Center on the same day.
>
>(*1) Oceanus Procellarum:
>The dark area on the Moon's surface called "ocean." It is located at
>the left end of the northern hemisphere on the front side of the Moon
>when we look up at it from the Earth.
>
>
>(2) The western side of the "Oceanus Procellarum"
>     (cut out from the second image shooting)
>http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2007/11/20071107_kaguya_e.html#pict02
>This is a still image taken out from the second moving image shooting
>when the KAGUYA flew from the south to the north on the western side
>of the "Oceanus Procellarum."
>The dark part on the right of the above image is the Ocean (Oceanus
>Procellarum,) and the light area on the left is called the "highland."
>The moving image was taken at 5:51 a.m. on Oct. 31, 2007 (JST) by
>eight-fold speed intermittent shooting (eight minutes is converged to
>one minute) from the KAGUYA, and the data was received at the JAXA
>Usuda Deep Space Center on the same day.
>
>
>(3) The west side of the "Oceanus Procellarum"
>     (cut out from the second image shooting)
>http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2007/11/20071107_kaguya_e.html#pict03
>This is a still image taken out from the end part of the second moving
>image taking.
>We can observe a crater called "Repsold," whose diameter is 107 km, at
>the center on the near side of this image. The channel that crosses
>this crater is called the "Repsold Valley," and its length is about
>180 km (equivalent to the distance between Tokyo and Shizuoka on the
>Tokaido Line in Japan.) The shooting time was the same as the above (2.)
>
>
>Moving image of the Moon shot by the HDTV camera (480x270, no audio)
>http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2007/11/20071107_kaguya_movie_e.html
>
>Reference
>http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2007/11/20071107_kaguya_e.html#ref01
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