The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) have acquired the world’s first high-definition images of an Earthrise. Japan’s lunar explorer Kaguya (SELENE), which entered lunar orbit on October 18, 2007, captured the images.
Kaguya captured the blue marble of Earth rising over the Moon’s north pole on November 7, 2007. This is a still from a high-definition movie shot with Kaguya’s wide-angle HD camera. Credit: JAXA / NHK
Read more from the Jaxa Hot Topics page.
Related posts:
- Japan Launches Mission To The Moon
- China Showing Off Their Lunar Probe’s First Pics, Gotta Be a Joke, Right?
- Lunar Lander – ‘Stop Motion’ Style
- Japan Probe Reaches Lunar Orbit, There Goes The Neighborhood
- She’s Geeky, Women’s Tech (un)Conference
Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.
[...] It looks like something from the Apollo missions. How does this even come close to comparing to what the Japanese Lunar probe recently did? Something to [...]