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By: Anji

Anji — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:20:28 +0000

Has anyone seen evidence of the previous moon missions? Like the flags or the lunar landers? Is any of that seen on the videos?

Also, is it just me- or does anyone else think that the video is computer generated…it just doesn’t look real to me not that you can tell what’s real and what’s not nowadays but there’s just something off about the video.

I want to believe in the moon missions, I really do—but there’s just something about this that doesn’t sit right with me.

By: Jim Janes

Jim Janes — Tue, 27 May 2008 14:19:25 +0000

I met a professional from Japan a few years ago and I told him of my dissatisfaction with NASA.

I told him how the Japanese could make money from their space program to help offset some of their costs.

I told him that the Japaneses should send small orbiting spacecraft to all of the planets and several of their moons and transmit Live HD video to an HD television station that the cable companies could include in their services. Or they could have a website of these extraterrestial LIVE HD streams.

Is this just the beginning.

I hope so.

Go JAXA / Japan!

By: Peleg Smith

Peleg Smith — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:34:16 +0000

All we ever get is teased. I’ve been waiting for high quality images of the lunar surface since 1969. And we are waiting to Japan, China, etc. to provide them? Hmmmm. I just cannot understand why we cannot simply see the physical evidence of the apollo moon landings. I just don’t understand all the venom spewed at those like me who want to believe but just want to see the images. This is science, after all, not religion. We shouldn’t need “faith” to prove multiple manned missions to the moon.

By: Phil

Phil — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 08:50:40 +0000

drbuzz0, the Apollo astronauts used 16 mm movie film plus 70 mm still photography in both b&w and color. All of the latter is now online, and much of it is absolutely stunning. Look at it on a large monitor, especially the assembled panoramas, and you are *there*. Go to http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/alsj/
and feast your eyes.

By: jiim

jiim — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:40:43 +0000

wonder when we finaly can see some hd clips from kaguya?And i mean real HD.this is not hd . my new mobile phone can record in 480×270.Well if i only could figure out a way to blasting my phone into moon orbit i could get the same result myself.

I Think it would be fair to leave the public with some original stuff instead of downscaled/compressed teasers all the time.Come on Jaxa,at least give us 5sec..

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 22:10:45 +0000

These videos will never show the NASA flags and equipment cause they never landed on the moon. Seen any recent pictures of the stuff? There are no third party pictures , only 30 year old pictures from the government, yet they can take pictures across the galaxy. It was all lies.

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By: Joslynn

Joslynn — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 20:05:28 +0000

Wow that Wow for being a student in school and the effct like that it was cool.^^

By: anon

anon — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:01:22 +0000

what no stars? FAKE!

“In any case, a scan of old movie film doesnâ€™t count as HD? Good movie film scanned to video can give you awesome HD video quality.”

Exactly, this is the film the used for In the Shadow of The Moon and it looked HD enough on the silver screen for me!

By: Tony

Tony — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:31:32 +0000

Super pictures. Thanks, BA
but what’s with embiggen?
Is that like enlarge?

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 17:44:09 +0000

Wow! That’s a view we haven’t seen since Apollo 17. Nice!!

Tom

By: The Centipede

The Centipede — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 17:42:43 +0000

>> we can see all of this stuff on-demand for free because of the Internet. I hope they have live Internet links to and from any manned missions that are comingâ€¦

Take out the ‘on-demand’ part and the previous generation had the exact same thing: television. The moon landings were televised, and very few were the poor suckers who didn’t beg, borrow, or steal their way in range of a television set.

Of course, manned missions tend to be boring except for the instants that they aren’t and thus make bad overall television… which makes on-demand content perhaps more worthwhile, because very few people want to watch the Earth constantly rotating two hundred miles below and whatnot. Now having a camera on the ISS as an active screensaver or desktop, that’d be interesting…

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 16:02:04 +0000

http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2007/11/20071107_kaguya.swf

that’s the URL you need to insert in the src= part of the embed code. be sure to keep the height at 315 and width at 480 or it will look distorted.

By: Another Andy

Another Andy — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 06:09:04 +0000

I don’t know which is more amazing: the fact that we can see (nearly) live pictures from the North Pole of the Moon or the fact that we can see all of this stuff on-demand for free because of the Internet. I hope they have live Internet links to and from any manned missions that are coming…

By: Jack Hagerty

Jack Hagerty — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 03:26:31 +0000

andy says: “theyâ€™d just change their tactic – sure, we landed some hardware on the moon, but thereâ€™s no evidence there were any people inside those spaceshipsâ€¦”

I’ve run into this line of reasoning with MHB’s and consider it their version of the “god of the gaps” argument.

My problem is in understanding just where their logical disconnect is. If they admit that spaceflight is possible (for machines), and it’s possible for humans (e.g. shuttle/ISS), then we’ve demonstrated all of the technology necessary for a trip to the moon. The energy needed to get from the Earth’s surface into orbit is about 80% of that needed for a moon landing mission. What is so impossible about grabbing the last 20%?

- Jack

By: ZB

ZB — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 01:36:24 +0000

Here’s a slightly more direct video (and non-craptastic YouTube) link:

http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2007/11/20071107_kaguya_movie_j.html

Amazing stuff. I keep wanting to reach into my monitor and run my hand across the surface.

By: wright

wright — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 00:30:12 +0000

Oh, how beautiful. Kudos to all who labored to get that hardware out there and doing its job. And thanks for the link, Phil.

By: Grand Lunar

Grand Lunar — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 00:18:31 +0000

Though I’ve seen the moon through my ‘scope many times, it’s still cool to see this video!
So, LRO will have a camera too? Even if it doesn’t, it’s still cool.
Pave the way, Kaguya!

Carey,

To my knowledge, it is the original, high quality recording of Apollo 11 that was lost, not that of the other missions.

By: Jan-NL

Jan-NL — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 23:02:13 +0000

Ehh this is 480X270 so it hardly qualifies as HD but I would love to see the native resolution shots. I have read hundeds and hundreds of pages of 60s and 70s Apollo-era historical documents in the past weeks. I was just 10 years old when Neil made his “small step” but it certainly was the base for my lifetime interest in astronomy and manned spaceflight. I was glued to the TV whenever they had someting on Apollo on. Reading about those missions and all the preparations involved made me realize even more what a fantastic undertaking this has been. Can’t wait for those true HD video’s!

By: The Centipede

The Centipede — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 22:06:00 +0000

HD gooooooooooooooood.

By: toomanytribbles

toomanytribbles — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:34:50 +0000

youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9p987VMGr0

By: Leon

Leon — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:09:04 +0000

I agree with others who've said they're looking forward to shots of our landers. Certainly it would give us a good hoaxers like Sibrel, who has specifically asked for pictures of them, as if our inability to see something so small (relative to the distance) were evidence that he's right. But also I'd just like to see them. Call me anthropocentric, but I just like to see the manmade artifacts out there. (In Antarctica, I was most thrilled to check out old abandoned stations; the penguin colonies were fun, but exploring those old huts was *cool*.) http://www.geocities.com/peyre1347/index.htm

By: James Snell

James Snell — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 20:22:45 +0000

These images have obviously been doctored! I can’t see a single big glass dome anywhere!!

By: Vincent J. Murphy

Vincent J. Murphy — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 19:33:24 +0000

Seems a little weird for them to claim HD resolutions, then toss up a decidedly non-HD movie (at 480X270 pixels, it’s barely SD quality). It would be great to see the same movie at the native resolution.