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Japan’s Kaguya probe, now in lunar orbit, recently beamed back the first ever high-definition video footage of the moon’s surface. The clip consists of two sequences—one shot over the northern part of Oceanus Procellarum toward the Moon’s north pole; the other is a fly over of the western side of Oceanus Procellarum.
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 October 31. 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 center 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 Center, and processed by NHK.
More info here:
The video is worth viewing here:
FYI blog administrators: The browser links in the article don’t work in firefox. “Firefox doesn’t know how to open this address, because the protocol (mhtml) isn’t associated with any programs.”
#1. Thanks I’ll look into it, seems to work fine in IE7.
This link works. It is the original link the stuff before the http removed.
http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2007/11/20071107_kaguya_movie_e.html
World’s First Image Taking of the Moon by HDTV
Someone please call the grammar cops…
Oh, and it isn’t all that impressive.
It doesn’t work in Firefox because it used that MHTML format. MHTML stands for MicrosoftHTML. It is an extension. Or maybe it stands for McCulloughHTML as the sleeping pilot article does the same.
Perry
HDTV is wonderful!
I can actually see Elvis waving from the edge of one of the craters.
This is CGI, not real video… just like global warming is an unsubstantiated piece of propaganda.
World’s First Image Taking of the Moon by HDTV
Is HDTV now capable of taking images from the moon? Well, he/she/it had better give those images back when he/she/it is finished with them!
Firefox problems?
Both links work fine for me in Firefox on a PC.
Of course if you are using a Mac… well, broken is expected for stuff like this.
#9 – Works fine on my Mac so blow me!
#9 – ROFL!.. There’s something w can agree on.
Fixed, now quit beating up the new guy.
// Obligatory Mars Rover Pissed Off Link
// * yawn * Worked fine on my XP + Firefox
Mars Rover Beginning To Hate Mars
Unmanned Vehicle ‘Bored Out Of Its Mind’
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/54360
Expect a Japanese version soon. Light gray, medium gray, dark gray, bored gray, light gray, dark gray, boring gray, medium gray.
#10
Works fine on my Mac so blow me!
A Mac user requesting gay sex… no surprise there.
#10 – #9 – Works fine on my Mac so blow me!
Comment by NappyHeadedHo — 11/12/2007 @ 10:17 am
#11 – #9 – ROFL!.. There’s something w can agree on.
Comment by http://tinysig.com/GlobalWarmer — 11/12/2007 @ 10:23 am
I agree. You should definitely blow him 🙂
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#12 – Fixed, now quit beating up the new guy.
What’s fixed? The grammar is still borderline criminal.
Mark – Spirit is apparently an offspring of HAL.
15. So sue me.
can we RENAME the moon??
Pothole city works for me..
#17 – If its criminal, I’ll have to swear out a warrant.
19. Fixed just for you OFTLO. Now call off the dogs.
18. I was gonna say ‘Edward James Olmos’, but he’s in favor of aliens, so pothole works. 😛
#20 – You are now my hero. 🙂
What a geeky forum… Most of these comments are about browser functionality?!
(works fine in FFox on my pc btw)
Oh, and I think the video’s very cool.
I wouldn’t mind getting this on an HDVD to play on my HDTV. I bet it would look twice as good than online.
24,
Unless you have a real piece of crap monitor…
It should look great on a monitor.
I’ve got a great monitor but the image is still tiny. I’d like to see it full screen.
#14 – Just because we ass rape morons like yourself is no reason to get pissy.
Owned.
27 – James Hill
You want to have ass-sex with me? Sounds pretty gay!
Sorry, not interested… I don’t use a Mac.
FWIW, check out the original Apple logo… nice rainbow!
And still, no evidence that the US landed on it.
#27
Shut up and go post some G rated bishounen art at Deviantart.
I don’t need to have sex with a PC user. You all get fucked enough by Microsoft.