Capturing Lunar Footage and Utilization of Image Data: The HDTV Camera System Onboard the Lunar Explorer Kaguya (SELENE)

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Seiji Mitsuhashi · Japan Broadcasting Corporation (Japan)

Junichi Yamazaki · Japan Broadcasting Corporation (Japan)

Junichi Tachino · Japan Broadcasting Corporation (Japan)

Masahito Yamauchi · Japan Broadcasting Corporation (Japan)

K. Tanimoto · Meisei University

Rie Honda

Motomaro Shirao · Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

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The high-definition television (HDTV) camera onboard the Japanese lunar explorer Kaguya (SELENE), launched from JAXA's Tanegashima Space Center on September 14, 2007, succeeded in taking the first high-definition moving image of the “receding Earth” at a distance of 110,000 km from the Earth.

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Planetary Science and Exploration Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life Space Exploration and Technology

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DOI: 10.5594/m001049

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