HD VIDS of Lunar surface from Japanese Orbiter

**1cooldude** · June 6th, 2009, 10:36 PM

Kaguya is a Japanese spacecraft that has been orbiting the Moon since October 2007. It is equipped with several detectors, but also — brilliantly, in my opinion — two HD cameras. The footage below is not a simulation: it’s real imagery of the Moon! Make sure you click the HD button, or go to the YouTube page to see this in full resolution.

VIDEO_1

This next footage is of the crater Antoniadi, and is stunning. Note the lens flares from sunlight entering the camera and reflecting inside.

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**mountain_rage** · June 6th, 2009, 11:02 PM

They need to get it traveling past the lunar landing site. Finally shut up the conspiracy theorist.

**fleecy** · June 7th, 2009, 12:15 AM

reminds me of my great-grandmother: she refused to believe that man went to the moon.

**RACKnRAIL** · June 7th, 2009, 07:33 AM

"An error occurred, please try again later"

It could be my work computer??

**1cooldude** · June 7th, 2009, 08:09 AM

It's not your pc. I'm getting the same error. Damn.

Might have to find another source.:ugh:

**Krell** · June 9th, 2009, 02:15 AM

You numbskulls ever heard of google?

I want my 4 seconds back :rippedhand:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/ba...ng-moon-video/

and no personal checks from numbskulls!

So I guess you missed the earth shattering news which is at the real heart of this piece:

I was surprised to learn that the end of Kaguya’s mission will come next week, on June 10! At 18:30 GMT it will impact the lunar surface; this is on the near side of the Moon but in the unlit portion, so that the impact can be studied by ground-based telescopes. This is just past full Moon, so the impact point will just barely be after local sunset on the Moon.

So by the time you realize this little faux pas, the thing will have obliterated itself on the surface of the moon, because, after all, polluting the Earth is soooo 20th century.

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