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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Jun 3 2009, 04:26 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1074 Joined: 21-September 07 From: Québec, Canada Member No.: 3908 |
Two videos have been posted by Jaxa on their Youtube channel. They were taken by the HDTV camera at low altitudes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJmT3dPbwHE...feature=channel This one has been taken at perilune from an altitude of 11 km. (I had Google translate the Japanese caption of this video, and I got this: "Orbiter, "furniture store" perilune HDTV in wide-angle camera (about altitude 11 km) were observed from the moon". What the heck do they mean by "furniture store"? More likely a translation error.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5c1T2oKEffQ...feature=channel This one is over Antoniadi crater from an altitude of 21-22 km (The caption for this one is: "Orbiter, "and smell" of the HDTV camera height of about 21 ~ 22k m wide and around ANTONIAJI observed." I hope they get videos from still lower altitudes. Should be interesting. I was wondering what would be the ground resolution of Kaguya's terrain camera at such low altitudes. Enough to discern Apollo hardware? |
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