This is a still image taken out from the first moving image shooting when the KAGUYA flew from the northern area of the Oceanus Procellarum to the centre of the North Pole
This is a still image taken out from the first moving image shooting when the KAGUYA flew from the northern area of the Oceanus Procellarum to the centre of the North Pole. As the altitude near the North Pole is high, the angle of the coming sunlight was lower, thus the shade of the crater topography looks long in the image. The moving image was taken at 4:07 AM on 31 October 2007 (JST) by eight-fold speed intermittent shooting (eight minutes is converged to one minute) from the KAGUYA, and the data was received at the JAXA Usuda Deep Space Centre on the same day. (c) JAXA, NHK
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First HDTV images of the Moon

Science Centric | 7 November 2007 11:12 GMT
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The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) have successfully performed the world's first high-definition image taking by the lunar explorer 'KAGUYA' (SELENE), which was injected into a lunar orbit at an altitude of about 100 km on 18 October 2007 (Japan Standard Time).

The image shooting was carried out by the onboard high definition television (HDTV) of the KAGUYA, and it is the world's first high definition image data acquisition of the Moon from an altitude about 100 kilometers away from the Moon.

The image taking was performed twice on 31 October. Both were eight-fold speed intermittent shooting (eight minutes is converged to one minute). The first shooting covered from the northern area of the Oceanus Procellarum toward the centre of the North Pole, then the second one was from the south to the north on the western side of the Oceanus Procellarum. The moving image data acquired by the KAGUYA was received at the JAXA Usuda Deep Space Centre, and processed by NHK.

The satellite was confirmed to be in good health through telemetry data received at the Usuda station.

Source: JAXA

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