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  • KAGUYA Captures First Successful Shooting Of A Full Earth-Rise

    04/24/2008 7:54:09 AM PDT · by RightWhale · 13 replies · 95+ views
    SPX ^ | 24 Apr 08 | staff
    Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 23, 2008 The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) successfully captured a movie of the "Full Earth-Rise"*1 using the onboard High Definition Television (HDTV) of the lunar explorer "KAGUYA " (SELENE) on April 6, 2008 (Japan Standard Time, JST, all the following dates and time are JST.) The KAGUYA is currently flying in a lunar orbit at an altitude of about 100 km. An "Earth-rise," or the rising Earth over the Moon, was first captured by the Apollo project. The Earth rising image taken by the KAGUYA on November 7, 2007, was...