The Kaguya lunar atlas
Subtitle: the moon in high resolution
By: Motomaro Shirao, Charles A. Wood
Contributors: Wood, Charles A.
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 173
ISBN-13: 9781441972842
Subjects: Photographs from space; Research; Maps; Exploration; SELENE (Artificial satellite); Pictorial works
Other titles: Lunar atlas; Moon in high resolution
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes indexes.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. Background; title: The Kaguya mission; title: Kaguya's HDTV and its imaging; title: Images of Earth and Kaguya's impact on the moon; title: The lunar surface; title: Pt. 2. The atlas.