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Oops! Maybe I should have given the link to the Tycho flyover.

You can download the full-size movie (zipped) from Japanese page for the terrain camera, or get it directly from:
http://wms.selene.jaxa.jp/data/jpn/tc/012/tycho_20mbps.zip

Papercraft!

Phil

http://www.nao.ac.jp/download/index.html#papercraft

Two papercrafts of Kaguya are also available.
This is for kids and beginners:
http://www.kaguya.jaxa.jp/ja/document/pdf/selene.pdf
...And here is a super-hi-fi version for UMSF geeks or wizards (sorry, written in Japanese)
http://www.kaguya.jaxa.jp/ja/document/pdf/kaguyamodel.pdf
Have fun!

[nprev]

Good God! That flyover vid was just amazing!!!

[djellison]

Imagine the DEM's hitting the PDS in a year or two

Doug

[nprev]

I can hardly wait. Kaguya is beyond impressive; hope that JAXA builds another one for Mars!

[JTN]

Hm... Is there any chance Kaguya did some Earthgazing at the time of the last lunar eclipse? If not, are there any plans for doing so in the (pretty distant) future?

Since we just had another lunar eclipse...

What are the chances of eclipse observations with HDTV (or any of the other instruments)? Will the power situation during an eclipse permit observations?

(This has also been discussed in the Feb 2008 eclipse thread, but to no conclusion.)

[djellison]

Given that ESA talked about the challenge with Smart - 1 and China mentioned it with Chang-e 1, the power problems must be fairly significant for an eclipse so I'd have thought not.

[charborob]

There are a couple of new images on the Japanese version of Kaguya's image gallery. Click on the 2008/08/29 link. Vertical, oblique and anaglyph images of a farside crater with interesting structures.

I am hoping that one day the data gathered by Kaguya et al. will end up in a Google Earth-type interface. Exploring the Moon as if you were there: my dream since I was young! (Already a long time ago.)

[dilo]

Charborob, thanks for highlight! I love in particular this anaglyph.
About auspicable Google Earth-type interface, I know there is a 2D version (Google-Map like) site but without Kaguya pics (copyright issues?)

[Guest_Zvezdichko_*]

Google translator helps me to find out what this feature is (2008.08.29 image):

Left, March 14, 2008, "Moon" Kimura terrain captured by the camera (KIMURA) crater (57.1 S 118.4E, diameter 28 km). This crater is located in the Japanese astronomer named after Shigeru Kimura has been
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Shigeru Kimura (KIMURA eaves) (1870-1943)

Shigeru Kimura, Kanazawa-born astronomer geophysicist. From the cradle known as a child prodigy, 8-year-old dame school for older students already have to deal with the role of the teacher. Kanazawa fourth through high school, 1892, graduated from Tokyo Imperial University. Astronomy research to graduate school to continue the movement of stars from the latitude to monitor research and exhibition.
From 1899, established himself involved in Mizusawa, Iwate Prefecture (now Oshu City) latitude observatory in the movement of stars from observations of latitude to seek changes in the Earth's rotation and polar motion to examine research. In 1902, worldwide latitude observational data to explain the difference between necessary, longitude recourse to a new term, Z Section discovered. This is the dawn of Japan's Earth Physics Astronomy is mentioned as the largest scientific results praised by Kimura, 1911, the first Imperial Academy of Science Award, the 1936 British Royal Astronomical Society Gold Medal, 1937 Anagram of the first year has been awarded a medal. Z-term causes of global nucleus of a fluid that was shown, after Kimura died in 1970, and it is an奇しくもKIMURA The crater is named in the same year.
Kimura continued to be observed for many years, latitude observatory is currently the National Astronomical Observatory of VERA Mizusawa observatory and "Moon" geodetic measurements of gravity in charge of missions to the lunar exploration project RISE home as well. Using a radio telescope network, "Moon" satellite child "every" "O" to accurately determine the orbit of the moon's gravitational field to increase accuracy. Also, the laser altimeter, a global clear the terrain. Precise observations of the earth and out to reveal the mystery of Kimura's aspirations, "Moon" mission is extended.

(National Astronomical Observatory of teachers from Akira Sasaki)
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Such data processing, LISM / TC team held devices.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimura_(crater) - more about Kimura crater...

[charborob]

In the Japanese version of Kaguya's image gallery, there is now an anaglyph movie of the Tycho flyover!
You can also download a hires version of the movie here.

[charborob]

You can also download a hires version of the movie here.

Sorry, I forgot to mention that you have to click on the first 2008/09/08 link on the gallery's main page.

[moon-observer]

There are a couple of new images on the Japanese version of Kaguya's image gallery. Click on the 2008/08/29 link. Vertical, oblique and anaglyph images of a farside crater with interesting structures.

I am hoping that one day the data gathered by Kaguya et al. will end up in a Google Earth-type interface. Exploring the Moon as if you were there: my dream since I was young! (Already a long time ago.)

checkout google moon:

http://www.google.com/moon/

http://www.google.com/sky/

[charborob]

checkout google moon:

I know that Google Moon already exists, but you can't have perspective views of the surface showing the relief, like in Google Earth. That's why I hope that eventually the data gathered by the current and future Moon probes will be accessible in an interface, like Google Earth, that permits you to view features from any angle, in 3D.

[Phil Stooke]

We will get excellent topo data, and I expect it will end up in some sort of 3D viewer, but we are nowhere near being able to do it on a global scale with existing datasets. Still, the excellent Kaguya 3D images show that it could be done locally even now.

Phil

[charborob]

On the Kaguya website, we can read:

"This mission will provide globally the high-quality and high-resolution data on ... surface topography..."

How much time could it take to analyse the Kaguya data and produce a global Lunar topographical dataset? Months? Years?