Japan Captures HDTV of Full Earth "Rise" from Lunar Orbit Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
The Japanese lunar orbiter "Kaguya" saw earth, moon and sun line up on April 6, 2008 and captured another "Earth-rise" and "Earth-set" HDTV video - this time when the Earth was full.
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Japanese moon probe shoots first HDTV footage of Earth Posted: 2 years ago by mitzuzake
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and public broadcaster NHK have succeeded in capturing their first high-definition video of Earth from the Kaguya lunar explorer. The video isn't available for download yet, but they do have a beautiful preview image.
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Eclipse Seen by Moon Probe as Earth Blocks Sun Posted: 9 months ago by AutumnLotus
This is the first time that this phenomenon was shot from the moon.
Japan's Kaguya lunar orbiter has beamed home a spectacular movie of Earth eclipsing the sun as seen from the moon.
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KAGUYA (SELENE) Image Taking of Earth-Rise by HDTV Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) have successfully performed the world’s first high-definition image taking of an Earth-rise* by the lunar explorer “KAGUYA” (SELENE,) which was injected into a lunar orbit at an altitude of about 100 km on October 18, 2007.
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Google Earth launches interactive 3D moon atlas to celebrate Apollo landings Posted: 4 months ago by AutumnLotus
It’s exactly forty years ago today that Neil Armstrong took man’s first step on the moon.
And to mark the historic occasion Google Earth has taken the same leap in cyberspace.
The search engine leader today launched Moon in Google Earth, an interactive 3D atlas of the moon which allows space fans to take their very own virtual steps on the surface of our closest satellite.
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The Flat Earth Society Posted: 3 years ago by TheStep
Whether or not you believe in a flat earth or a spherical one, this should still give you a chance to read about flat earth theory and post your views.
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Beetles shared Earth with dinosaurs Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
Beetles first appeared on Earth at the same time as the earliest dinosaurs but turned out to be much better survivors, a new evolutionary study has shown. Today, there are an estimated 350,000 known species of beetle on Earth, and probably several million more yet to be discovered, say scientists. The insects account for about a quarter of all life forms on the planet.
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Hardy Earth bacteria can grow in lunar soil Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
A hardy life form called cyanobacteria can grow in otherwise inhospitable lunar soil, new experiments suggest. Future colonists on the Moon might be able to use the cyanobacteria to extract resources from the soil that could be used to make rocket fuel and fertiliser for crops.
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Secret Places of the Earth Posted: 3 years ago by tundramonkey
Google Earth has some amazing and interesting images to be found. Here are a few, shown in video form (if you can ignore the cheesy music).
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The flat earth society Posted: 2 years ago by glik
The Flat Earth Society considers the notion of a round earth to be a conspiracy.
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Top 10 Most amazing facts about the Earth Posted: 2 years ago by ubikuor
1. Gravity is not the same over the surface of the Earth, 2. Atmosphere 'escapes', 3. The Earth is slowing down...
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If Earth had no Moon Posted: 2 years ago by DrNothing
In this essay, the father of the SMART-1 lunar mission, Bernard Foing of the European Space Agency, looks at the effect the Moon has had on the Earth, and explores how different our world would be if we had no planetary companion. Would life have evolved differently, or at all without our Luna?
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Parking 2 satellites 1.5m km from Earth Posted: 7 months ago by Ankabout
This Thursday a rocket will take two new European telescopes into space, and park them not in an orbit around earth, but in an orbit around the sun.
Pretty cool information about a 'prime' orbiting spot named L2, 1.5 million km from earth.
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New Cloak of Plasma Found Around Earth Posted: 12 months ago by AutumnLotus
A detailed analysis of the measurements of five different satellites has revealed the existence of warm cloak of plasma around Earth. This newfound feature is part of the magnetosphere, a shield of magnetic fields and electrically charged particles that surround and protect Earth from the onslaught of the solar wind.
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KAGUYA records lunar surface in high def Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) have successfully performed the world's first high-definition image taking by the lunar explorer KAGUYA, which was injected into a lunar orbit at an altitude of about 100 km on October 18, 2007.
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Mars, Earth And Moon From 'Unique Planetary Nursery' Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
A study of meteorites suggests that Mars, the Earth and the Moon share a common composition from ‘growing up’ in a unique planetary nursery in the inner solar system.
The finding could lead to a rethink of how the inner solar system formed.
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Will the Earth fry future moon astronauts? Posted: 2 years ago by Bornbad
The moon stays inside Earth’s ‘magnetotail’ for six days every month — during full moon. This can have consequences ranging from lunar ‘dust storms’ to strong electrostatic discharges.
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Movie shows alien's-eye view of Earth and Moon Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
A spacecraft sent on a mission to inspect comets has filmed the Earth and its moon from 31 million miles away, making an alien's-eye view of our world. VIDEO
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Earth's high octane colours captured by NASA's most advanced satellites Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
With their high octane colours and incredible detail they look more like canvassed art than landscapes of the earth. Captured by some of NASA's most advanced satellites hundreds of miles above the earth, these unusual and striking images show our planet like never before.
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Earth's Magnetic Field Does Strange Things to the Moon Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
NASA-supported scientists have realized that something does happen every month when the Moon gets a lashing from Earth's magnetic tail. "Earth's magnetotail extends well beyond the orbit of the Moon and, once a month, the Moon orbits through it," says Tim Stubbs. "This can have consequences ranging from lunar 'dust storms' to electrostatic discharges."
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Earth doomed to fiery end - in 7.6bn years Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
Our planet faces a fiery doom inside the sun unless future generations work out how to change its orbit.
New calculations by University of Sussex astronomers predict the Earth will be burnt to a cinder then swallowed up by the sun in about 7.6 billion years.
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