What does the Earth look like from the Moon? A new version of this space age perspective [ http://www.abc.net.…] was captured by the robotic Kaguya spacecraft [ http://www.selene.j…] currently in orbit around Earth's Moon. Launched two months ago by Japan, the scientific mission [ http://www.selene.j…] of the Selenological [ http://en.wikipedia…] and Engineering Explorer (SELENE), nicknamed Kaguya, is to study the origin [ http://www.pbs.org/…] and evolution of the Moon [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…]. Last month Kaguya [ http://en.wikipedia…] reached lunar orbit and starting transmitting data and images. This frame [ http://www.jaxa.jp/…20071113_kaguya_e.ht ml ] is from [ http://www.jaxa.jp/…20071107_kaguya_movi e_e.html ] Kaguya's onboard HDTV [ http://en.wikipedia…] camera. An astronaut standing on the lunar surface [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] would never actually see the Earth rise, since the Moon always keeps the same side toward the Earth [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…]. This Earthrise as well as the famous Earthrise captured 40 years ago [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] by the crew of Apollo 8 [ http://nssdc.gsfc.n…apollo8info.html ], only occurs for observers in lunar orbit.
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What does the Earth look like from the Moon? A new version of this space age perspective [ http://www.abc.net.…] was captured by the robotic Kaguya spacecraft [ http://www.selene.j…] currently in orbit around Earth's Moon. Launched two months ago by Japan, the scientific mission [ http://www.selene.j…] of the Selenological [ http://en.wikipedia…] and Engineering Explorer (SELENE), nicknamed Kaguya, is to study the origin [ http://www.pbs.org/…] and evolution of the Moon [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…]. Last month Kaguya [ http://en.wikipedia…] reached lunar orbit and starting transmitting data and images. This frame [ http://www.jaxa.jp/…20071113_kaguya_e.ht ml ] is from [ http://www.jaxa.jp/…20071107_kaguya_movi e_e.html ] Kaguya's onboard HDTV [ http://en.wikipedia…] camera. An astronaut standing on the lunar surface [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] would never actually see the Earth rise, since the Moon always keeps the same side toward the Earth [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…]. This Earthrise as well as the famous Earthrise captured 40 years ago [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] by the crew of Apollo 8 [ http://nssdc.gsfc.n…apollo8info.html ], only occurs for observers in lunar orbit.
