{"id":13335,"date":"2016-10-11T14:39:04","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T18:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13335"},"modified":"2016-10-11T14:39:04","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T18:39:04","slug":"videos-moon-gems-from-japans-kaguya-spacecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13335","title":{"rendered":"Videos: Moon gems from Japan&#8217;s Kaguya spacecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check \u00a0out these\u00a0nice views\u00a0of the Moon and Earth from the Japanese <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaguya.jaxa.jp\/index_e.htm\" target=\"_d\">Kaguya (Selene)<\/a>\u00a0 mission:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/blogs\/guest-blogs\/bill-dunford\/20161010-new-gems-from-the-moon.html\" target=\"_d\">New Gems from the Moon | The Planetary Society<\/a>\u00a0&#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/20161008_half_earth_f8401.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"13336\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?attachment_id=13336\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/20161008_half_earth_f8401.png\" data-orig-size=\"840,525\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"20161008_half_earth_f8401\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/20161008_half_earth_f8401.png\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-13336\" src=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/20161008_half_earth_f8401.png\" alt=\"20161008_half_earth_f8401\" width=\"500\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/20161008_half_earth_f8401.png 840w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/20161008_half_earth_f8401-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/20161008_half_earth_f8401-768x480.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although the mission took place in 2007-2009, only now has<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>\u00a0the Japanese space agency, JAXA, [&#8230;]\u00a0publicly released the entire data set from Kaguya\u2019s HDTV cameras. The iconic views are all there&#8230;plus some gems that haven\u2019t been widely seen before. One reason they weren\u2019t previously released may be that some of them are \u201cmarred\u201d by lens flare and other imperfections, but I think such things lend interesting visual texture and context to the images and videos.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Enjoy a few examples below, then visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darts.isas.jaxa.jp\/planet\/project\/selene\/hdtv\/index.html.en\">Kaguya HDTV Data Publication System website<\/a>\u00a0if you want to explore further.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>More than seven years after Kaguya\u2019s planned impact on the lunar surface, it\u2019s good to have these fresh visions, courtesy of the moon\u2019s brave princess.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YOdoeVzMaWg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KRlfwZLGHxs?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/86fJfKYi3fM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check \u00a0out these\u00a0nice views\u00a0of the Moon and Earth from the Japanese Kaguya (Selene)\u00a0 mission:\u00a0New Gems from the Moon | The Planetary Society\u00a0&#8211; Although the mission took place in 2007-2009, only now has \u00a0the Japanese space agency, JAXA, [&#8230;]\u00a0publicly released the entire data set from Kaguya\u2019s HDTV cameras. The iconic views are all there&#8230;plus some gems &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13335\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Videos: Moon gems from Japan&#8217;s Kaguya spacecraft<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,13,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-multiple-media","category-space-science","category-the-moon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-3t5","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8350,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8350","url_meta":{"origin":13335,"position":0},"title":"Over 200 deep pits seen on the Moon &#8211; 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