KAGUYA lunar explorer (aka SELENE) Options

[Toma B]

There are 2 new movies from Kaguya HDTV here.
Few new images too.

Anybody out there knows how to catcht that ".asx" stream or somewhere else to download it from?

[ugordan]

Nice to see they finally started to distribute higher resolution versions of the movies. Good stuff, too bad the wide angle Earthset is sped-up 4x.

As for saving the wmv media, where there's a will, there's a way...

[bugs_]

Two VERY impressive videos!

I'm Unix inclined so I was glad to find the mmsclient freeware today.

[Del Palmer]

I've captured the Kaguya stream and have placed the downloadable files here:

http://www.meridiani.co.uk/other/man_de_1m.wmv
http://www.meridiani.co.uk/other/man_de_2m.wmv

Enjoy!

[Phil Stooke]

Check out the Apollo 15 site!

http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2008/05/20080520_kaguya_j.html

Two small dark spots correspond exactly with the disturbed soil areas around the LM and ALSEP, as also seen in Apollo 15 Panoramic camera frame 9798.



Phil

[remcook]

very cool, yet still pretty blurry. patience...patience

[elakdawalla]

Regarding this release, I received the following message from Shin-ichi Sobue this morning.

Today, JAXA/SELENE project just publicize apollo landing site stereo image derived from TC observation data.

Unfortunately, we don't have english press release yet but I attached the URL of Japanese version with my poor quick translation of first page as below;

http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2008/05/20080520_kaguya_j.html

I hope JAXA will have English version of press release next week.

P.S.
FYI, in Japanese, we just activated 2 channel discssion of Apollo story about landing on the Moon :-)
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Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) confirmed the one bright albedo area of the Apollo 15 landing point, called "Halo", caused by the jet of the engine of Apollo 15 derived from Terrain Camera (TC) observational data on SELENE (KAGUYA) on February 24, 2008. .

In this image, after Apollo project ends, it is the first time in the world that the one thought to be a Apollo 15 halo using TC product by SELENE science team (foot and Hadley valley vicinity of Apennines where the sea of rain is
surrounded) .

Additionally, the appearance where the lava flow that gushed to the upper part of the Hadley valley watched similarly in Apollo 15 several hundred million 30 years ago was piled was able to be understood besides it was confirmed that the same scenery as the photograph that the Apollo 15 crew took was made from the TC stereo image and the high spatial accuracy of TC was confirmed.

I'm not sure what he meant by "we just activated 2 channel discssion of Apollo story about landing on the Moon" -- anybody got any guesses before I go back to him for clarification?

--Emily

[Ian R]

This new image can also be compared to a mosaic I made a while back of the landing site using stills from the Apollo 15 ascent footage:

[nprev]

I'm not sure what he meant by "we just activated 2 channel discssion of Apollo story about landing on the Moon" -- anybody got any guesses before I go back to him for clarification?

Mmm...from context, perhaps 2 Japanese blogs?

[Phil Stooke]

Fantastic picture, Ian - it deserves to be a LPOD.

Phil

[dvandorn]

This new image can also be compared to a mosaic I made a while back of the landing site using stills from the Apollo 15 ascent footage...

Amazing, Ian -- it's extremely obvious that the dark semi-circle north and northeast of the ALSEP site, visible in the Kaguya image, is formed by footprint-disturbed soil.

Apollo 15 had one of the best ascent films of all the LM launches. Not only does it give us a really good view of the descent stage from directly above, as it proceeds and the Falcon comes up to Hadley Rille, it makes a little evasive maneuver to avoid Bennett Hill and Hill 302 by swinging to the right and flying parallel to and above the rille for about 20 or 30 seconds.

Plus, the 15 ascent film vividly displays one of the major dangers of the LM launches -- the MESA blanket, a large piece of kapton foil that had covered the MESA, had been stowed under the descent stage. At launch, exhaust blew it up and out, straight west from the LM, and it skittered along the ground until it passed the ALSEP Central Station, clearing it by all of about 10 to 15 feet. Nearly wiped out the ALSEP in one swell foop. Its short but exciting journey about 400 meters out from the LM is well captured on the ascent film.

Getting back to the Kaguya image -- does it look to anyone else like you can sort of make out rover tracks, as faintly visible linear features, to the southwest of the landing site?

-the other Doug

[climber]

I'm not sure what he meant by "we just activated 2 channel discssion of Apollo story about landing on the Moon" -- anybody got any guesses before I go back to him for clarification?
--Emily

I'm sure, this will be of some help: http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...=5127&st=30

[remcook]

Maybe he refers to TV channels, like a documentary?

Awesome picture Ian! I didn't know there was even such footage available.

[ugordan]

I didn't know there was even such footage available.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=mHs2bVlNdpE

[remcook]

cool, thanks! amazing stuff. hope to see that kind of thing in my lifetime shame about the hoax people