[FPSPACE] FW: [JAXA:0148] KAGUYA (SELENE) Observation by Terrain Camera (TC) and Multi-band Imager (MI)

[Peter Pesavento]

Thanks Larry, for continuing to post these updates on JAXA's lunar mission.

These are really great images.



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Camera (TC) and Multi-band Imager (MI)




>From: "JAXA Press Release Mail Service" <jaxapr at jaxa.jp>
>To: ljk4 at msn.com
>Subject: [JAXA:0148] KAGUYA (SELENE) Observation by Terrain Camera (TC) and

>Multi-band Imager (MI)
>Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 19:10:50 +0900
>
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>                        ***  JAXA MAIL SERVICE  ***
>                    Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
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>                              KAGUYA (SELENE)
>                    Observation by Terrain Camera (TC)
>                         and Multi-band Imager (MI)
>
>                                                November 16, 2007 (JST)
>                              Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
>
>The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) carried out an
>observation using two onboard sensors of the Moon Explorer "KAGUYA"
>(SELENE,) the Terrain Camera (TC) and Multi-band Imager (MI,) on
>November 3, 2007, processed the acquired data, and confirmed they were
>functioning properly.  The observation was part of the initial
>functional verification of the KAGUYA, which had been injected into
>the Moon's orbit at an altitude of about 100 km.  In a global first,
>both three-dimensional (stereo) observations of the Moon by the TC
>with a 10-meter aerial resolution and a multi-band observations by the
>MI with a 20-meter aerial resolution of the Moon's backside and near
>polar were taken.
>
>The satellite was confirmed to be in good health through telemetry
>data received at the Usuda Deep Space Center.
>
>Terrain Camera (TC)
>http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2007/11/20071116_kaguya_e.html#tc
>
>Multi-band Imager (MI)
>http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2007/11/20071116_kaguya_e.html#mi
>
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