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.

http://www.moondaily.com/reports/KAGUYA_Captures_First_Successful_Shooting_Of_A_Full_Earth_Rise_999.html

http://space.jaxa.jp/movie/20080411_kaguya_movie01_e.html

Check it out!!

By Ben, 5/1/2008, 6:51 am o'clock

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