KAGUYA lunar explorer (aka SELENE) |
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 Nov 14 2007, 04:02 AM
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Junior Member  Group: Members Posts: 52 Joined: 24-November 05 From: Tokyo Member No.: 571  |
QUOTE (nprev @ Nov 14 2007, 12:35 PM)  Yes, he was...and glad to see that JAXA's learning the lesson early!  This outreach should be a real boon for Japan's future UMSF efforts.Thanks, nprev, I agree and I also thank many predecessor spacecrafts by other countries for letting us know the importance of outreach And FYI, DiscoveryChannel.ca will broadcast HDTV images  Enjoy!"North American EXCLUSIVE: First HD footage from the Moon" http://www.discoverychannel.ca/shows/showd...s.aspx?sid=5180 |
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Nov 14 2007, 08:53 AM
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#152
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3648 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
QUOTE (mcaplinger @ Nov 14 2007, 04:54 AM) What still images are you looking at? The ones at http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2007/11/20071113_kaguya_e.html look blurry and contaminated by video noise to my professional (but probably biased) eye... Yes, they do. Though, the last movie seemed to show greater artifacts than this one (unless the screenshots were processed a bit), but showing both at only low resolution kills the artifacts and gives a CG impression. All this is missing now is some hand-shakiness to make it real real.
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Nov 16 2007, 12:43 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10153 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
New images from the science cameras:
http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2007/11/20071116_kaguya_e.html Very promising! Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PD: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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Nov 16 2007, 01:43 PM
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#154
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 Member Group: Members Posts: 656 Joined: 20-April 05 From: League City, Texas Member No.: 285 |
QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Nov 16 2007, 06:43 AM) ... Very promising! ... They're generating 10m vertical resolution terrain maps from the stereo imagery... which is nice, but I'd really like to see the stereo pair images. No sign of them yet. Patience, I suppose
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Nov 16 2007, 02:57 PM
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 Member Group: Members Posts: 370 Joined: 12-September 05 From: France Member No.: 495 |
At 10m/pixel, the Smart-1 impact crater should be too small but at least the ejecta might be visible
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Nov 16 2007, 04:02 PM
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#156
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1074 Joined: 21-September 07 From: Québec, Canada Member No.: 3908 |
A resolution of 10 m/pixel is also not sufficient to identify Apollo remains, but we should be able to discern ground disturbance at the landing sites.
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Nov 16 2007, 04:37 PM
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#157
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 52 Joined: 24-November 05 From: Tokyo Member No.: 571 |
New videos taken by the HD camera:
(resolution is low  )http://jda.jaxa.jp/jda/v3_j.php?mode=searc...%F7%B3%AB%BB%CF |
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Nov 16 2007, 06:08 PM
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#158
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3648 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
Some HDTV (1280x720) footage has surfaced up on the web, complete with Japanese titles.
A hundred seconds in length, it can be found here: http://video-veuillezpas.stage6.com/1833421.divx (261 megabytes!) They overdid it a bit with the sharpening filter for my taste, but still it's pretty spectacular. Too bad they're not the recent Earth-involving shots at normal speed, but the 8x speed-ups. -------------------- |
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Nov 17 2007, 01:32 AM
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 Member Group: Members Posts: 753 Joined: 23-October 04 From: Greensboro, NC USA Member No.: 103 |
Wow, nice flyover of Tsiolkovsky! You may think ol' Luna is boring compared with Iapetus or other moons, but it still has plenty of beauty for my taste.
EDIT: I don't think we will be debating white-on-black or black-on-white in this example. -------------------- Jonathan Ward
Manning the LCC at http://www.apollolaunchcontrol.com |
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Nov 17 2007, 02:05 AM
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 Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
 ...absolutely stunning! The contrast between Tsiolkovsky & the surrounding terrain is really remarkable.
-------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Nov 17 2007, 05:26 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2920 Joined: 14-February 06 From: Very close to the Pyrénées Mountains (France) Member No.: 682 |
I hope they'll lower the orbit down to 10 kms for the last extension!
It already give me the feeling to be there anyway. -------------------- |
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Nov 17 2007, 05:32 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3648 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
QUOTE (climber @ Nov 17 2007, 06:26 PM) I hope they'll lower the orbit down to 10 kms for the last extension! I think that would be a very short-lived extension... -------------------- |
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Nov 17 2007, 07:18 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2173 Joined: 28-December 04 From: Florida, USA Member No.: 132 |
QUOTE (ugordan @ Nov 17 2007, 12:32 PM) I think that would be a very short-lived extension... And probably blurry pictures. |
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Nov 18 2007, 01:25 PM
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 Interplanetary Dumpster Diver Group: Admin Posts: 4404 Joined: 17-February 04 From: Powell, TN Member No.: 33 |
QUOTE (centsworth_II @ Nov 17 2007, 07:18 PM) And probably blurry pictures. If Kaguya can transmit in real time, a crash landing video would be neat. But that is for when it is out of fuel - right now, I am looking forward to more imagery from the science cameras. -------------------- |
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Nov 18 2007, 01:35 PM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
I'm looking forward to JAXA's first Mars orbiter with HDTV...
 (Yes, I know, bandwidth restrictions & all...)
-------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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