KAGUYA Update... The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) released new video footage today showing the Earth rising and setting behind the Moon’s horizon. The footage was taken by the Kaguya spacecraft’s high-definition television camera...and was anticipated by folks long before Kaguya launched to the Moon exactly two months ago.
The first image above, a screenshot from the video itself, shows the Earth rising above the lunar horizon...and was taken using wide-angle lens on the HDTV camera. The second screenshot, as well as the series of still pics at the top of this journal entry, shows our home planet setting below the lunar horizon...and was taken using telephoto lens on the HDTV camera. There are two components to Kaguya’s camera—the wide-angle lens that faces in the direction of flight (when the "Earthrise" video was taken) and the telephoto lens that points backward behind the spacecraft (when the "Earthset" video was shot). Compare the images above to the ones below...which were taken by Lunar Orbiter 1 and Apollo 8 astronauts, respectively, around 40 years ago:
NASA
Below are the videos as they were posted on Youtube. The videos were combined into one long clip, which is why it runs almost 9-minutes long. The Earthrise footage is the first one shown, while the second one starts about 4 minutes, 20 seconds into the clip.
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