Monday, November 26, 2007

Taking of Earth-Rise by HDTV


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.)
JAXA | KAGUYA (SELENE) Image Taking of Earth-Rise by HDTV

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2 Comments:

Blogger Jeope said...

Hoax! Hoax! It's all being done from a soundstage in Osaka!

9:11 AM  
Blogger Ian said...

gotta admit in this age of CGI, I also think it looks fake! :-)

9:31 AM  

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