Kaguya, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency's lunar explorer, is taking pretty pictures
Have to confess I am missing something here, since the pixel count is underwhelming, but it has been a long time... and the pics are awful pretty.
Couldn't get the movie sequence to run on Safari, regrettably. I blame Bill Gates.
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Are you aware of Kaguya (Selene)?
Kaguya images rock!
Bonus added earthrise video
"Ignignokt: Well well, I know that. I said that, but it's his nap time now.
Err: 'Cause he like, sleeps during the day.
Ignignokt: But at night he feeds.
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"magnificent desolation" is right!
Darn. I was hopeing they were going to work in an Earthrise there toward the end.
Neat video, though.
That is astoundingly cool.
It is one thing to know that shadows are sharper because there is no atmosphere, it is another to see it.