KAGUYA lunar explorer (aka SELENE) |
KAGUYA lunar explorer (aka SELENE) |
Jun 6 2007, 08:29 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 370 Joined: 12-September 05 From: France Member No.: 495 |
SELENE has now a nickname : KAGUYA.
http://www.jaxa.jp/topics/2007/06_e.html Edit : And Emily searched for the origin of the name http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00000996/ |
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Jan 11 2008, 01:43 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 41 Joined: 12-April 06 Member No.: 738 |
QUOTE The LALT will cover the entire region of the Moon with a height resolution of 5 m at a sampling interval smaller than 2 km. As someone trying to CG render parts of the lunar surface with a high degree of accuracy, and sorry for my non-scientific interruption here, that comment in the recent press release above got me very excited. How many times did I long for a decent DEM map of the entire Moon, like we have of Mars today! It looks like we don't need to wait for LRO to do this job (if it was ever intended to do so...) Now the big question is whether it will be publicly available, once they've completed it? I guess that process alone will take some time (years?). |
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