Kaguya - Selene UPDATE # 1
Jaxa releases MI (multibander Image) image of Apollo 11 Landing site (around Mare Tranquillitatis)
These images are enlargement of a part of the image of Apollo 11 landing site taken by Multiband imager (MI) on December 16, 2007. The landing site of
Apollo 11 is pointed out by a red arrow in the left image.
The left image shows the single-band image (750nm) and the right image shows the color composite band ratio images among three bands (415nm, 750nm and
950nm). In the first report of MI, only a band ratio image showing the comparison of the strength of two bands (750nm and 1000nm) is posted, but for
this image, three band ratio images
are assigned to RGB (Red, Green, Blue) colors. MI is able to analyze mineral distributions and degree of space weathering with such band ratio
images.
For instance, the red colored area covering the most part of the right image are thought to be old soil that exposed in space for long time and
suffered space weathering heavily. In contrast, the blue to yellow green colored areas in spots indicate the flesh soil that were excavated by impacts
of meteorites and suffered little space weathering effect. We have to study further to know which minerals distributed around this area.
Many Apollo samples from this area will help us to analyze the KAGUYA image data in the future study.
The data was processed by LISM/MI team.
Full Single-band image (750nm)
wms.selene.jaxa.jp...
Full Color composite band ratio images among three bands (415nm, 750nm and 950nm)
wms.selene.jaxa.jp...
Apollo 11 landing site on Single-band image (750nm)
I've made an animation combining the two:
the result looks nice, and makes the point, imho:
Kaguya - Selene UPDATE # 2
Apr. 11, 2008: KAGUYA's high vision Camera captures Full Earth-rise.
The lunar explorer KAGUYA initially captured the right-side waned "Earth-rise" in November 2007 with its high-vision camera, but this time, it
succeeded in capturing the "Full Earth-rise" without any wane. This is the
first time that a high-vision image of the "Full Earth-rise" has been captured from space, 380,000 kilometers away
from Earth.
These are digest version of HD movies of "Earth-rise" and "Earth-set" taken by the high definition television
(HDTV) on November, 7, 2007 (JST). These movies are higher resolution movies (DVD quality) than those in JAXA Video
Archives.("Earth-rise" "Earth-set" )
Please enjoy the bleak but spectacular Moon and the vivid Earth.
In future, JAXA will make efforts to up more high resolution HDTV movies in cooperation with NHK (Japan
Broadcasting Corporation).
www.jaxa.jp...
Downlinks: [.mpeg format]
Earth rise
Earth set
Source:
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
[edit on 18/4/2008 by internos]
