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Author Shirao, Motomaro

Title The Kaguya lunar atlas : the moon in high resolution / Motomaro Shirao, Charles A. Wood
Published New York : Springer, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 173 pages) : chiefly illustrations (some color), maps
Contents The Kaguya Lunar Atlas; The Kaguya Lunar Atlas; Contents; Contents; About the Authors; About the Authors; Acknowledgments; Acknowledgments; Part I Background; Part I Background; Chapter 1: The Kaguya Mission; Chapter 1: The Kaguya Mission; Chapter 2: Kaguya's HDTV and Its Imaging; Chapter 2: Kaguya's HDTV and Its Imaging; Chapter 3: Images of Earth and Kaguya's Impact on the Moon; Chapter 3: Images of Earth and Kaguya's Impact on the Moon; Chapter 4: The Lunar Surface; Chapter 4: The Lunar Surface; Part II The Atlas; Part II The Atlas; ORGANIZATION OF THE ATLAS; ORGANIZATION OF THE ATLAS
Summary This volume presents a "gallery" or collection of unique portraits of the moon. The 100 detailed photographs are presented in a standard format as wide angle, low perspective views of a single feature or geographical complex, assembled from many separate lunar orbiter photos taken in high definition video. In late 2007, the Japanese Space Exploration Agency (JAXA) placed the Kaguya/ Selene spacecraft in orbit around the Moon to probe the Moon's surface and interior. But unlike previous lunar orbiters, Kaguya carries a high definition television camera (HDTV) sent beyond Earth orbit. The output shows the Moon as it would be seen by an astronaut looking through a porthole window while orbiting only 100 km above the lunar surface
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In Springer eBooks
Subject KAGUYA (Artificial satellite)
SUBJECT KAGUYA (Artificial satellite) fast
Subject SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- General.
Physique.
Astronomie.
Exploration of outer space
Research
SUBJECT Moon -- Photographs from space. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85087138
Moon -- Maps. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85087127
Moon -- Pictorial works. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85087137
Earth (Planet) -- Photographs from space. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85040445
Outer space -- Exploration -- Japan
Moon -- Research -- Japan
Subject Earth (Planet)
Japan
Moon
Outer space
Genre/Form photographs.
illustrated books.
Photographs
Illustrated works
Maps
Photographs from space
Pictorial works
Maps.
Photographs.
Illustrated works.
Cartes géographiques.
Photographies.
Ouvrages illustrés.
Form Electronic book
Author Wood, Charles A.
ISBN 9781441972859
1441972854