World’s First High-Definition Image of Earth Rise
The first ever high-def moon rise photos have been taken by a lunar explorer by JAXA (The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency). This is something that can only be seen by satellites that travel around the moon and the JAXA gives a good explanation of how it works in their article on the moon rise, Image Taking of Earth-Rise by HDTV.
we use the expression “Earth-rise” in this press release, but the Earth-rise is a phenomenon seen only from satellites that travel around the Moon, such as the KAGUYA and the Apollo space ship. The Earth-rise cannot be observed by a person who is on the Moon as they can always see the Earth at the same position.
I have posted a cropped version below so as not to use their bandwidth. All the image taken below are copyright of JAXA (not me) and if you would like to see them images in their full (huge) version just go to the article quoted above. These images are really great, and a view we can never see ourselves, at least not right now.
Great to see some new images taken from a perspective we can only imagine seeing. Hope JAXA will post more images soon. 73, KI4WLR
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