[FPSPACE] FW: [JAXA:0139] Lunar Explorer KAGUYA (SELENE) Successful Image Taking by the High Definition Television (HDTV)

[LARRY KLAES]

>From: "JAXA Press Release Mail Service" <jaxapr at jaxa.jp>
>To: ljk4 at msn.com
>Subject: [JAXA:0139] Lunar Explorer KAGUYA (SELENE)  Successful Image 
>Taking by the High Definition Television (HDTV)
>Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 17:22:53 +0900
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>                    Lunar Explorer KAGUYA (SELENE)
>   Successful Image Taking by the High Definition Television (HDTV)
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>                                                  October 1, 2007 (JST)
>                              Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
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>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.
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>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.
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>The Earth taken by the onboard HDTV of the KAGUYA (Still image)
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>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)
>http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2007/10/20071001_kaguya_e.html#ref
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