TO THE MOON, MARS, AND BEYOND

Many folks would like to see us back on the Moon and developing its resources.

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Tuesday, October 21, 2014

THE EARTH, MAY WE VIEW FROM ....

Geoff in New Zealand sent me several links which I will pass for your consideration.
As you will note, our astronauts are getting better at communicating with the general population and hopefully they will generate an interest in not only looking up, but in looking back down at us on mother Earth.

Maybe today's social media will spread the word and generate an interest in space, as a new frontier.
I know I enjoyed my small part in letting us see what Lunar Prospector was doing as it went around the Moon.

Today we have even more robotic craft at the Moon, Mars, and Beyond, and it sounds like real time tweets from the ISS are generating a following as well.
Hope we have the money to add more to what has already been done.
- LRK -

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Subject: 'Forget Mars, we should live on the MOON': Chris Hadfield says the red planet is too big a leap for Nasa at the moment | Daily Mail Online
Canadian Chris Hadfield tells MailOnline we should go back to the moon
The former astronaut says current plans to go to Mars are too ambitious
Instead we should be looking to live on the moon for 'generations'
He also responds to comments from Nasa chief Charles Bolden last week who said he had 'raised the bar for astronaut'
Hadfield does not think he put pressure on astronauts to engage more
And he wants to see more cooperation in space in the future
Hadfield was speaking after the launch of his new book 'You Are Here: Around the World in 92 Minutes'
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I tend to agree that at least at first we should learn how to live is on the Moon.
Either place will be extremely hard to accomplish and expensive so we will need to find some way to make the risk worthwhile. 

Cost - Benefit 

Probably a lot easier to send Tweets from the Moon with only a one and a half second OWLT to the Moon vs 4 to 24 minutes to Mars. :-)
- LRK -

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Subject: The real space oddity, Chris Hadfield, is down-to-Earth | Ars Technica 
by  - Oct 19 2014, 11:00am PDT
http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/10/the-real-space-oddity-chris-hadfield-is-down-to-earth/
The real space oddity, Chris Hadfield, is down-to-Earth

Ex-NASA man wants to give everyone the chance to know what it’s like in space.
NEW YORK—What do you do after you’ve achieved the ultimate goal of your avocation—not once, but three times? That’s the question facing Chris Hadfield, who capped 25 years of NASA service by commanding both the International Space Station and an audience of millions on YouTube and Twitter. Hadfield gave a partial answer recently during a public talk at the American Museum of Natural History: get as many people as possible to understand the experience and try to use that to keep the public supporting a program of space exploration.
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Hope he continues to excite people with his tweets and books. Sounds like he took a LOT of pictures. 
- LRK -

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Subject: The View From The Best Office In The Solar System
The View From The Best Office In The Solar System - http://huff.to/1rWM0kK
Incredible Photos Taken From ISS By Alex Gerst Are Quite Simply, Breathtaking
The Huffington Post UK
Posted: 20/10/2014 12:00 BST 
Updated: 20/10/2014 12:59 BST


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I guess if we can't look back at the Earth from the Moon, we will have to settle for pictures like these from closer up on the ISS..
 
Thanks for looking up with me.
- LRK -
Published on May 12, 2009
We are living in exceptional times. Scientists tell us that we have 10 years to change the way we live, avert the depletion of natural resources and the catastrophic evolution of the Earth's climate....
I have enjoyed watching this several times - even if the music is a bit eerie.
Thought provoking and if you watch to the end there are suggestions we are taking note and making changes.
This was published 5 years ago. I wonder what they would say now.
- LRK -
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http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00452
PIA00452: Solar System Portrait - Earth as 'Pale Blue Dot'

Original Caption Released with Image:

This narrow-angle color image of the Earth, dubbed 'Pale Blue Dot', is a part of the first ever 'portrait' of the solar system taken by Voyager 1. The spacecraft acquired a total of 60 frames for a mosaic of the solar system from a distance of more than 4 billion miles from Earth and about 32 degrees above the ecliptic. From Voyager's great distance Earth is a mere point of light, less than the size of a picture element even in the narrow-angle camera. Earth was a crescent only 0.12 pixel in size. Coincidentally, Earth lies right in the center of one of the scattered light rays resulting from taking the image so close to the sun. This blown-up image of the Earth was taken through three color filters -- violet, blue and green -- and recombined to produce the color image. The background features in the image are artifacts resulting from the magnification.
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Monday, May 05, 2008

To Go To Space or Not To Go To Space - That is the question

E-mail from the NSS says that George Whitesides is going to testify before the US Senate.

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Next Wednesday, May 7, NSS Executive Director George Whitesides will testify before the United States Senate on NASA and the nation's space policies. We would like to solicit your input as a member of the National Space Society for this important testimony. The testimony will be used by Congress as it considers reauthorization of NASA, which is the periodic direction from Congress to NASA on the priorities and programs of the agency. The hearing will be presided over by Florida's senior Senator, Bill Nelson.

We would appreciate your comments on the future of the U.S. space program, its importance to the country, and the potential gap in human spaceflight capability, following the retirement of the Space Shuttle. Due to the immediate timeline, we would request that you submit your comments no later than Monday, May 5. You can email your comments directly to George Whitesides at: george@nss.org

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Well the 5th is over, wonder what will come of this.

In the mean time, space comes to us in the form of asteroids whether we go there or not.
Others are launching satellites into space and learning more about same.
The Shuttle Discovery is getting ready for its next mission and then there will be a time of no more.
Care to bounce down in a field again?
- LRK -

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http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/05/02/peggy-whitson-astronaut.html
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In a series of interviews since landing, Whitson talks about the bumpy ride back to Earth, the surprise greeting in a Kazakhstan field and why she's sitting a bit delicately in her chair.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazakhstan
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/080423-whitson-landing-comments.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89886030
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition16/landing.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080420114045.htm

On May 5, 2008 there were 949 potentially hazardous asteroids.
http://spaceweather.com/

Thanks for looking up with me.


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Some update on India's space program:

http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_channel.jsp?channel=space&id=news/India050108.xml&headline=ISRO%20To%20Seek%20Human%20Spaceflight%20Funding

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http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/080428-pslv-cartosat-launch.html
India Hails Success of Complicated Rocket Launch
By K.S. Jayaraman
Space News Correspondent
posted: 28 April 2008
12:13 pm ET

BANGALORE, India -- The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) placed two domestic and eight foreign satellites in orbit Monday in what the agency said was the most complex mission launched as yet by its Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV).


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Canadian satellite to detect Earth hits

http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Canadian_satellite_to_detect_Earth_hits_999.html

by Staff Writers

Ottawa (UPI) May 2, 2008

Canadian researchers are working on a tiny satellite that will alert the world to the potential of asteroid strikes.

"This is the first space-based asteroid-searching telescope," said Alan Hildebrand of the University of Calgary (Alberta), one of two principal scientists for the satellite.

He told the Canwest News Service the Near Earth Object Surveillance Satellite, set to be launched within two years is "the first space-based asteroid-searching telescope."

Once completed, the NEOSSat device will weigh only 135 pounds, and will be the size of a small suitcase, the report said.

"I think the most exciting thing about this mission is we are going to find asteroids that are accessible from our planet," Hildebrand said.

He said the mini-satellite would also help define celestial origins.

"We've been to the moon. There's always more you can do (there), but asteroids have so much more to teach us about the origins of the solar system," Hildebrand told the news agency.

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http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html
Watch NASA TV

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/MM_NTV_Breaking.html
NASA TV Schedule
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Monday, February 04, 2008

Journey to Saturn From Your Computer 

Jim sent me a copy of JPL's Internet Advisory: 2008-018 for Cassini.

The Super Bowl is over and you may have watched the ads all over again at
http://www.myspace.com/superbowlads

and maybe you would like watch some information about Cassini.

You can download an Internet Plug-In to view some media clips here.
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/CASSIE/

Happy Viewing.

Shuttle should launch this week as well.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/index.html

Wish them a good flight.
- LRK -

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INTERNET ADVISORY: 2008-018
                  Jan. 31, 2008

Journey to Saturn From Your Computer

Want a peek at Saturn as seen from space? A new interactive 3-D viewer
that uses a game engine and allows users to travel to Saturn and see
it the way the Cassini spacecraft sees it is now online at
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/CASSIE and
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/multimedia/cassie.html .

The Cassini at Saturn Interactive Explorer makes the real Cassini
mission data fully available in three colorful, easy-to-use
expeditions.

The "Where is Cassini Now?" expedition shows exactly where the Cassini
spacecraft is and what it is doing each moment over the current
24-hour period. Viewers can see the spacecraft move in its orbit and
maneuver according to instructions from mission scientists and
navigators at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.

With the "Mission Overview" expedition, look back in time as Cassini
orbited the Saturn system over the past 3.5 years, and fast-forward
into the future to see where it is headed. Users can control two
virtual cameras to see Cassini fly by Saturn and its moons.

The "Saturn's Moons" expedition gives an in-depth peek at seven of
Saturn's moons, providing useful facts and interactive surface views
of each one.

More information on the Cassini mission is available at
http://www.nasa.gov/cassini and http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov .

The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the
European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. JPL, a division of
the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the
Cassini-Huygens mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate,
Washington. The Cassini orbiter was designed, developed and assembled
at JPL.

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Monday, January 28, 2008

Challenger STS 51-L Accident 

Time marches on and one day blurs into the next.
Still, one may reflect on the past and then look forward into the future.
- LRK -

We lost the Apollo-1 crew on January 27, 1967 and we lost the Challenger
crew on January 28, 1986, one minute and 13 seconds into the flight.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/archives/sts-51L.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Challenger_disaster

The Apollo missions went on and took us to the Moon, and now an
International Space Station is almost complete.

Will watch and see what the future brings.
- LRK -

If you are in the USA then make your desires known by voting in the
Presidential Primaries.
http://www.nasawatch.com/archives/election_2008/
- LRK -

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http://history.nasa.gov/Apollo204/


Apollo-1 (204)

 Pad 34-A (7)
 Saturn-1B AS-204
 <http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/history/apollo/apollo-1/apollo-1.html> (4)
 CSM-x ()
 Apollo Pad Fire


Crew
<http://history.nasa.gov/Apollo204/crew.html>

 Virgil "Gus" Ivan Grissom, Lieutenant Colonel, USAF
 <http://history.nasa.gov/Apollo204/grissom.html>
 Edward Higgins White, II, Lieutenant Colonel, USAF
 <http://history.nasa.gov/Apollo204/white.html>
 Roger Bruce Chaffee, Lieutenant Commander, USN
 <http://history.nasa.gov/Apollo204/chaffee.html>

Backup Crew

 Walter M. "Wally" Schirra, Jr., Captain, USN
 <http://history.nasa.gov/Apollo204/backup.html#schirra>
 Donn F. Eisele, Colonel, USAF
 <http://history.nasa.gov/Apollo204/backup.html#eisele>
 Walter Cunningham, Colonel, USMC (Reserves)
 <http://history.nasa.gov/Apollo204/backup.html#cunningham>

On January 27, 1967, tragedy struck the Apollo program when a flash fire
occurred in command module 012 during a launch pad test of the
Apollo/Saturn space vehicle being prepared for the first piloted flight,
the AS-204 mission. Three astronauts, Lt. Col. Virgil I. Grissom, a
veteran of Mercury and Gemini missions; Lt. Col. Edward H. White, the
astronaut who had performed the first United States extravehicular
activity during the Gemini program; and Roger B. Chaffee, an astronaut
preparing for his first space flight, died in this tragic accident.

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http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/calendar/
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# Jan 28 - Express AM-33 Proton M-Briz M Launch
# Jan 28 -New[Jan 23] Comet P/2008 A2 (LINEAR) Closest Approach To Earth
(1.129 AU)
# Jan 28 - Asteroid 143 Adria Occults HIP 47779 (6.7 Magnitude Star)
# Jan 28 - Asteroid 17898 Scottsheppard Closest Approach To Earth (1.271 AU)
# Jan 28 - Asteroid 13926 Berners-Lee Closest Approach To Earth (1.781 AU)
# Jan 28 - Lecture: Beyond Our Solar System: In Search of Extrasolar
Planets, New York, New York
# Jan 28 - New[Jan 24] Cosmology Seminar: The Morphology of Clusters of
Galaxies - Prospects for Cosmological Constraints, Stanford, California
# Jan 28-29 - Meeting: Cosmology Meets Condensed Matter, London, United
Kingdom
# Jan 28-Feb 01 - Meeting: Magnetic Fields in the Universe II - from
Laboratory and Stars to the Primordial Universe, Cozumel, Mexico
# Jan 29 - Comet C/2007 S2 (Lemmon) Closest Approach To Earth (4.710 AU)
# Jan 29 - Updated[Jan 23] Asteroid 2007 TU24 Near-Earth Flyby (0.004 AU)
# Jan 29 - Asteroid 79896 Billhaley Closest Approach To Earth (1.383 AU)
# Jan 29-31 - Workshop: Science with the New Hubble Space Telescope
after Servicing Mission 4, Bologna, Italy
# Jan 30 - Theos Dnepr 1 Launch
# Jan 30 - Asteroid 2007 WD5 Near-Mars Flyby
# Jan 30 - Asteroid 2347 Vinata Occults HIP 14893 (5.8 Magnitude Star)
# Jan 30 - 140th Anniversary (1868), Pultusk Meteorite Shower in Poland
# Jan 30-Feb 01 - Annual NuSTAR Meeting, Darmstadt, Germany
# Jan 31 -Hot[Jan 23] 50th Anniversary (1958), Explorer 1 Launch (1st US
Satellite)
# Jan 31 - Asteroid 3329 Golay Occults HIP 45058 (6.0 Magnitude Star)
# Jan 31 - Asteroid 2710 Veverka Closest Approach To Earth (1.223 AU)
# Jan 31- Feb 02 - 14th Annual Space Exploration Educators Conference,
Houston, Texas
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Space Weather News for Jan. 28, 2008
http://spaceweather.com

ASTEROID FLYBY:  Asteroid 2007 TU24 is flying past Earth this week at a distance
of only 334,000 miles (1.4 lunar distances).  NASA radars tracking the asteroid
confirm that there is no danger of a collision, but it will be close enough for
amateur astronomers to photograph through mid-sized backyard telescopes. At
closest approach on Jan. 29th, the asteroid will glide through the constellations Andromeda and Cassiopeia glowing like a 10th magnitude star.
Visit http://spaceweather.com for celestial coordinates and a low-resolution
radar image of the approaching rock.

HALO BONUS:  A photographer in Finland has captured the long-sought "Kern arc",
a rare sun halo created by triangular ice crystals.   Experts are calling it the
"halo photo of the decade" and it is featured on today's edition of 
http://spaceweather.com.

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Saturday, January 19, 2008

Mercury fly-by a success. 

Thanks to your eyes out there, I am reminded that we had a most news
worthy event taking place at planet Mercury.
MESSENGER made a successful fly-by.
- LRK -

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http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/messenger/main/index.html
As NASA�s MESSENGER neared Mercury on January 14, 2008, the spacecraft
took this image of the planet�s full crescent. The image shows portions
of Mercury previously seen by Mariner 10, but when Mariner 10 flew by
the planet at each of its encounters, the sun was nearly overhead. For
this MESSENGER flyby, in contrast, the sun is shining obliquely on
regions near the day/night boundary (called the terminator) on the
right-hand side of the crescent, revealing the surface topography. This
image illustrates how MESSENGER, during its future flybys and subsequent
orbital mission, will teach scientists much about the portion of Mercury
already imaged by Mariner 10. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University
Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington
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MESSENGER images of Mercury
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/messenger/multimedia/index.html

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Did you catch this about the Mercury fly-by?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/technology/technology.html?in_article_id=508772&in_page_id=1965


Bob MacBird
Conroe, Texas

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http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=205801036
Merury fly-b a success
R. Colin Johnson
EE Times

(01/16/2008 11:49 AM EST)
PORTLAND, Ore. � The U.S. Messenger spacecraft has flown its first
successful fly-by of the planet Mercury.
Messenger, which stands for Mercury Surface Space-Environment
Geochemistry and Ranging, will perform the most detailed survey of the
closest planet to the Sun. Already having flown by Venus, which is
between Earth and Mercury, the spacecraft is now training its
instruments on the final destination--orbit around Mercury in 2011, just
in time to observing the effects of the peak sunspot season.

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http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/
MESSENGER
MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging

January 18, 2008
*MESSENGER�s Mercury Flyby Science Data Now Safely on Earth*

A day after its successful flyby of Mercury, the MESSENGER spacecraft
turned toward Earth on Tuesday and began downloading the 500 megabytes
of data that had been stored on the solid-state recorder during the
encounter. All of those data, including 1,213 images from the Mercury
Dual Imaging System (MDIS) cameras, have now been received by the
Science Operations Center at the Johns Hopkins University Applied
Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md. [more]

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariner_10

Mariner 10 was a robotic space probe launched on November 3, 1973 to fly
by the planets Mercury and Venus. It was launched approximately 2 years
after Mariner 9 and was the last spacecraft in the Mariner program
(Mariner 11 and 12 were redesignated Voyager 1 and Voyager 2). The
mission objectives were to measure Mercury's environment, atmosphere,
surface, and body characteristics and to make similar investigations of
Venus. Secondary objectives were to perform experiments in the
interplanetary medium and to obtain experience with a dual-planet
gravity-assist mission.
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Thursday, November 29, 2007

Many things going on and I have been remiss in mentioning them. 

In the military, it was, "No Excuse Sir."

There are two nations with satellites going around the Moon.
Having waited for years to see it happen, the days slip by without a word.
http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2007/11/20071128_kaguya_e.html
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/space/11/05/china.orbit.ap/

I hope you have signed up for some of the news letters and are watching
even if I am distracted.

While I was at NASA Ames we had missions to Venus and so had the Russians.
Now ESA has a spacecraft there and not much being said from these lips.
http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/venusexpress/index.html

Interesting results from spacecraft and rovers at Mars and the evening
news isn't even turned on to see if they are in the news.
I have been helping with 5th and 6sth grade homework and putting up with
video games.
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/

When I can sneak in some time, have been communicating with David
Robertson in England about building artificial neural networks using
LabVIEW as a programming language.  Time flies and my LabVIEW software
was at version 7.1 and it is now at version 8.5 so playing with 30 days
evaluation down load.
http://edt.missouri.edu/Summer2005/Thesis/PogulaS-072105-T2944/research.pdf
http://www.ni.com/labview85/

The grandchildren wanted to spend some of their money at Toys R Us and
the kid in me bought a Lego Robot, Mindstorms NXT 8527.  It uses LabVIEW
under its programming icons.  Will I be able to build 'AMEE', probably
not.  Still, thinking about what would be helpful if I was building a
Lunar Base Camp.
http://www.digitalanimators.com/HTM/Articles/Nov/redplanet_cinesite.htm
http://mindstorms.lego.com/

Here in the USA, Thanksgiving has come and gone.  The stores are selling
Christmas Trees, and I'll turn 70 New Years Eve.  Mom is 97.  The days
are getting shorter.

Many of you are doing interesting things and a time to be excited.  Just
not enough hours in the day.

Have a daughter in Iraq and her kids will be glad when she is home
safe.  She lost three men in her platoon the other day.  Nice that we
have the Internet and e-mail to communicate with but not the same as
being state side.  Maybe those that go to a Lunar Colony or a Martian
Base will do better at getting along.  Seems we should practice that in
the here and now.


Thanks for looking up with me.

Larry Kellogg

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http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2007/11/20071128_kaguya_e.html
KAGUYA (SELENE)
Composition of 3-D Movies with Terrain Camera Images
November 28, 2007 (JST)

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) successfully demonstrated
production of stereo movies (3 dimensional movies) of the Moon surface
by using stereoscopic images obtained with the Terrain Camera (TC)
onboard KAGUYA on Nov. 3, 2007 (Japan Standard Time, JST). This
verification was performed as part of the initial check out of mission
instruments onboard "KAGUYA" (SELENE), which was injected into the
Moon's orbit at an altitude of about 100 km. These are the first 3-D
movies of the Moon including its polar areas with an aerial resolution
of 10 meters.
Anaglyph images*1 and movies were also produced.

*1: Anaglyph images are 3-D images viewed with red and blue 3-D glasses
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Mission website:

SELenological and ENgineering Explorer "KAGUYA" (SELENE)
<http://www.jaxa.jp/projects/sat/selene/index_e.html>

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*China's Lunar Mission* Sends Images of Moon To Earth
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7009270831
AHN - Nov 26, 2007
Beijing, *China* (AHN) - *China's* first-ever *lunar* probe on Monday
has begun sending images of the moon back to Earth, with the first batch
comprising some 19 *...

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*China's Lunar Mission* Sends Images of Moon To Earth
http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5gmM4yVvNcBP10Uif7l2ONuIXdVEg
AHN - Nov 26, 2007
Beijing, *China* (AHN) - *China's* first-ever *lunar* probe on Monday
has begun sending images of the moon back to Earth, with the first batch
comprising some 19 *...

**China* acclaims moon images, *mission* deemed a success
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSPEK26717520071126
Reuters - Nov 25, 2007
"The full success of our country's first *lunar* exploration *mission*
is helping to turn the Chinese nation's 1000-year old dream of reaching
the moon a *...*

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http://spaceweather.com/
SOLAR WIND DRIES VENUS: Europe's Venus Express spacecraft has made an
important discovery: the solar wind dries out Venus. Unlike Earth, Venus
has no global magnetic field to deflect particles from the sun; when
solar wind hits Venus it erodes the upper atmosphere. Hydrogen and
oxygen atoms fly into space, removing from Venus the chemical building
blocks of water. The process makes an already hellish planet even worse.
Get the full story from the ESA.

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