Space Topics: Kaguya (SELENE)
Movies from the High-Definition Camera on Kaguya
The table below contains links to all of the Kaguya high-definition movies
released to the Web as of January 3, 2008.
Links from the image number go to the movies
on the JAXA website; links from
the latitude and longitude range go to the search tool of the Digital
Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon, which may or may not provide
help in figuring out which named craters or maria are visible in the Kaguya
movie.
Kaguya carries two high-definition television cameras, each fitted with a
1,920 by 1,080 CCD. However, most of the movies are downsampled and cropped
to 320 by 240 pixels (which is about half the resolution of a standard-definition
TV). Almost all of the movies are from the wide-angle camera, which has
a field of view spanning 51.23° by
30.17° and faces forward along Kaguya's orbit. The narrower-angle tele-camera
has a field of view spanning 15.60° by
8.80° and faces backward.
Typically, the cameras are employed in a time-lapse mode, and the movies play
at 8x speed, but a few of the movies (especially Earthrise/Earthset movies)
are shown at slower 4x or even real-time speeds.
| Number |
Rate |
Date
(2007) |
Time
(UTC) |
Lat/lon
range* |
Alt.
(km) |
Note |
V-044-0015
 |
8x |
09-29 |
|
N/A |
N/A |
Rotating Earth (before LOI) |
V-044-0017
 |
8x |
10-30 |
20:51:00-
20:59:00 |
25/275-282;
49/275-283 |
110 |
High sun over Oceanus Procellarum |
| 8x |
10-30 |
19:07:00-
19:15:00 |
66/274-288-
87/26-161 |
100 |
Moving into nighttime polar region |
V-044-0021
Lsat part
repeated in
V-044-0025 |
8x |
10-30 |
22:06:00-
22:14:00 |
-71/92-107-
-83/252-293 |
97-
105 |
Starts in darkness, comes over pole |
| 8x |
10-30 |
22:56:00-
23:04:00 |
46/274-282;
70/272-287 |
111-
104 |
High sun; nice rilles in foreground |
| 8x |
10-31 |
10:10:00-
10:18:00 |
-53/265-275;
-29/267-274 |
112-
116 |
Very high sun, mostly highlands, to mare at end |
| 8x |
10-31 |
12:13:00-
12:21:00 |
-37/265-273;
-13/266-273 |
114-
116 |
Nearly continuous with previous one |
| 8x |
11-03 |
05:31:00-
05:39:00 |
43/231-239;
67/228-242 |
102-
97 |
|
| 8x |
11-10 |
19:25:30-
19:33:30 |
-86/94-174
-61/128-140 |
91-
98 |
Cool rille at start |
| V-044-0023 |
8x |
11-03 |
07:36:00-
07:44:00 |
64/228-240;
86/162-309 |
98-
93 |
Going across terminator near pole |
| V-044-0024 |
8x |
11-04 |
06:14:00-
06:22:00 |
-74/31-52;
-80/202-238 |
|
|
V-044-0018
 |
real |
11-07 |
05:52:45-
05:56:45 |
67/173-189;
86/64-303 |
107-
101 |
Earthrise |
V-044-0019
 |
real |
11-07 |
03:07:13-
03:11:13 |
-79/??;
-76/173-195 |
99-
104 |
Earthset; telephoto |
| V-044-0026 |
8x |
11-09 |
20:26:00-
20:34:00 |
18/143-150;
42/142-151 |
119 |
High sun; mare & highlands |
| V-044-0025 |
8x |
11-10 |
19:25:30-
19:33:30 |
-86/94-174;
-61/128-140 |
91-
98 |
Cool rille at start |
| V-044-0022 |
8x |
11-11 |
09:24:00-
09:32:00 |
-41/123-131;
-17/123-130 |
106-
112 |
Highlands to isolated patch of very dark mare in middle |
| 8x |
11-11 |
21:24:00-
21:32:00 |
1/117-123;
22/117-124 |
113-
114 |
"King?" |
| V-044-0042 |
8x |
11-14 |
13:47:30-
13:55:30 |
-75/71-92;
-51/80-88 |
94-
98 |
Polar |
| V-044-0043 |
8x |
11-18 |
18:21:30-
18:29:30 |
13/27-32;
37/26-33 |
100-
102 |
Mare, unusually smooth limb |
| V-044-0044 |
8x |
11-21 |
18:14:50-
18:22:50 |
-65/176-163;
-87/248-90 |
98-
100 |
Starts in darkness; crescent Earthrise over pole *** |
| V-044-0045 |
8x |
11-23 |
08:17:05-
08:25:05 |
25/327-333;
49/325-322 |
96-
101 |
Mare to highlands, nice transition |
| V-044-0047 |
8x |
11-28 |
01:42:30-
01:50:30 |
-32/263-270;
-8/264-270 |
100-
98 |
High sun, mountains and Mare Orientale |
| V-044-0048 |
8x |
11-28 |
03:33:30-
03:41:30 |
-52/261-270;
-28/263-269 |
101-
100 |
Highlands to Mare Orientale |
| V-044-0049 |
8x |
11-29 |
10:50:39-
10:58:30 |
-69/240-265;
-45/244-252 |
102-
100 |
Dramatic highlands topography, variety crater sizes & states,
SW of Orientale |
| V-044-0050 |
8x |
11-29 |
12:55:00-
13:03:00 |
-48/243-251;
-24/245-250 |
101-
97 |
Highlands SW of Orientale |
| V-044-0051 |
8x |
11-30 |
12:36:30-
12:44:30 |
-18/232-238;
6/232-238 |
94-
90 |
Farside highlands, south Hertzsprung crater; nice little
fresh rayed crater near end |
| V-044-0052 |
8x |
11-30 |
14:41:00-
14:49:00 |
3/231-236;
27/231-237 |
91-
87 |
Farside highlands, north Hertzsprung crater |
| V-044-0053 |
8x |
12-01 |
06:24:30-
06:32:30 |
11/223-228;
35/223-228 |
90-
88 |
Farside highlands, Poynting crater |
| V-044-0054 |
8x |
12-01 |
08:29:30-
08:37:30 |
34/222-227;
58/220-229 |
88-
87 |
Farside highlands, Poynting crater |
| V-044-0055 |
8x |
12-02 |
15:20:20-
15:28:20 |
-59/202-213;
-35/204-211 |
101-
97 |
South pole-Aitken basin |
| V-044-0056 |
8x |
12-03 |
11:16:00-
11:24:00 |
2/194-199;
25/193-199 |
94-
93 |
Jackson, fresh central peak crater toward end |
| V-044-0057 |
8x |
12-03 |
16:51:30-
16:59:30 |
-51/190-197;
-26/190-197 |
96-
95 |
Oppenheimer crater |
| V-044-0058 |
4x |
12-04 |
10:20:15-
10:24:15 |
-86-67/332-26;
-80/193-176 |
96-
99 |
Gibbous Earthset, telephoto, rear-facing |
| V-044-0059 |
8x |
12-04 |
18:17:00-
18:25:00 |
-59/175-185;
-35/176-183 |
95 |
Leibnitz crater |
| V-044-0060 |
8x |
12-05 |
15:43:30-
15:51:30 |
-79/155-182;
-55/163-172 |
93 |
SW south pole-Aitken basin |
| V-044-0061 |
8x |
12-05 |
17:49:00-
17:57:00 |
-55/162-171;
-30/163-169 |
93-
94 |
Mare Ingenii |
| V-044-0062 |
8x |
12-07 |
17:02:30-
17:10:30 |
-15/132-138;
10/131-138 |
94-
97 |
Flat-floored Mendeleev crater |
*Note: latitudes are listed as negative if southern,
positive if northern. Longitudes given on the Kaguya movies are reported positive
East from 0 to 360. This is not standard for lunar mapping, which typically employs
a -180 to 180 range, where negative values are Western longitudes.
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