The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) have successfully performed the world's first high-definition
image taking of an Earth-rise* by the lunar explorer "KAGUYA" (SELENE,) which was injected into a lunar orbit at an altitude of about 100 km on
October 18, 2007 (Japan Standard Time. Following times and dates are all JST.)
The Apollo project was the first mission to take images of Earth rising over the Moon. The KAGUYA successfully shot high-definition images of the
Earth-rise showing an impressive image of the blue Earth which was the only floating object in pitch-dark space. These are the world's first
high-definition earth images taken from about 380,000 km away from the earth in space.
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Amazing images; we could see the continent "Australia" in that picture
