KAGUYA satellite captures HD Earthrise

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) KAGUYA satellite that we talked about before has now turned its HDTV eye back towards the big blue marble that is Earth. The HD eye in the sky has recast one of the most famous photos ever, the "Earthrise" captured during the Apollo 8 mission in 1968. If you liked the initial footage from this satellite, you know the drill: click the read link to check out HD still frames and ED-like 480 x 720-pixel versions of the HD "Earthrise" and "Earthset" captures. Okay, JAXA, we'll accept the missing audio track, but make with the full-HD movies of this footage!

[Via spaceref.com]

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 14th 2007 8:59PM]

Try here: http://stage6.divx.com/user/tanabota/video/1833421/Kaguya(SELENE)

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 14th 2007 10:47PM]

There should not be another satellite sent out without a HD video camera if they're going to put a video camera on it. These images are amazing.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 15th 2007 2:30AM]

This is pretty freaking cool. Now we need high def images of the other planets.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 15th 2007 10:57AM]

Did you notice what they are not showing us.... Like where the US landed on the moon. I would love to see that video more than looking at us from the moon.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 15th 2007 11:34AM]

Too bad they didn't fly over the Apollo landing site.

[JDM Posted Nov 15th 2007 3:01PM]

I would expect that the Apollo stuff might only show up as a pixel or so, though it would take some specs to compute that for sure, such as field of view and height of orbit.